The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require. and thus fall back to less efficient encode families.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Software performance can be compromised in many ways, including software bugs, cyberattacks, overwhelming demand, backup failures, network issues, and human error. Each of these factors can present unique challenges individually or in combination.

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Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring Software Performance 260

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. AWS Transit Gateway is a service offering from Amazon Web Services that connects network resources via a centralized hub.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth. There are a number of utilities and conventions on how to use this message when it is present in an RPC request. For efficiency, the binary message contains only field number-value pairs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Media Open Source Software Engineering Efficiency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

As the number of 4K titles in our catalog continues to grow and more devices support the premium features, we expect these video streams to have an increasing impact on our members and the network. Mbps, is for a 4K animation title episode which can be very efficiently encoded. shot-optimized encoding and 4K VMAF model ?—?and

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Network Storage Innovation Mobile 337

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 228

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Infrastructure & Operations app provides a comprehensive overview for effective prioritization The new Infrastructure & Operations app provides situational awareness to help ops and SRE teams group and categorize problems efficiently based on their impact.

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Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring 187

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. Explainable AI tools and practices are important for understanding and weeding out biases like this to improve output accuracy and operational efficiency.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 219

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. We looked at a hosts network devices, the flows between them and then at the process level details. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 222

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., What is Edgar?

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

With three sessions delivered around the globe and all but two presentations delivered live, it was great to set attendance records, and this is a testament to the strength of our partners and the community they create. Recognizing the immense contribution of our partners is truly one of the highlights of our year.

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Programming Cloud Virtualization Technology 238

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Network scanners. Let’s look at each type.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite the fact that more than 80% of organizations now employ multicloud architecture, “hyperscaler” clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure present monitoring and management issues for cloud practitioners. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments. Why modern observability is different.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Even when I took out the sessions that don’t directly cover the topics of my primary interests as well as mainframe-specific presentations, I ended up with 21 sessions in 2.5 – Another presentation on resource optimization – this one from Salesforce. And, by the way, you may get a discount with my personal code Podelko10.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Collecting logs that aren’t relevant to their business case creates noise, overloads congested networks, and slows down teams. To control local network data volume and potential congestion, Dynatrace also allows filtering of log data on-source—by specific host, service, or even log content—before data is sent to the cloud. Host group.

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Storage Government Network Monitoring 234

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There are cases where more flexible data presentation is needed. An example of this is shown in the video above, where we incorporated network-related metrics into the Kubernetes cluster dashboard. Rather than manually exploring the Kubernetes app you can simply open the Dynatrace global search and enter “Kubernetes network.”

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Social Media Metrics Network Analytics 200

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We present two sets. On the other hand, the optimized ladder presents a sharper increase in quality with increasing bitrate. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. Shown below are rate versus quality examples for a couple of titles from our HDR catalog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix.

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! By the end of this series, we hope you will gain an understanding of how Psyberg transformed our data processing, making our pipelines more efficient, accurate, and timely. Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data?

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Data Engineering Engineering Processing Games 272

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion.

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Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 207

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion.

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Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 206

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Not just infrastructure connections, but the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers. Cloud environments present IT complexity challenges that don’t exist in on-premises data centers. This crucial context also enables teams to understand how all entities are connected.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Yet upgrading antiquated systems and effectively integrating them into modern workflows is challenging despite the potential to increase efficiency, improve security, reduce the higher operational costs associated with supporting tech debt, and avoid the foreseeable breaks in end-of-life apps.

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Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 210

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

With three sessions delivered around the globe and all but two presentations delivered live, it was great to set attendance records, and this is a testament to the strength of our partners and the community they create. Recognizing the immense contribution of our partners is truly one of the highlights of our year.

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Programming Cloud Virtualization Technology 176

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 30, 2023

An example of the features we might capture for this image include: number of people (two), where they’re facing (facing each other), emotion (neutral to positive), saturation (low), objects present (military uniform) We can use pre-trained models/APIs to create some of these features, like face detection and object labeling.

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Media Design Innovation Mobile 263

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

The application is a combination of neural embeddings , which encode the semantic information in words and sentences, and locality sensitive hashing , which efficiently assigns approximately nearby items to the same buckets and faraway items to different buckets. 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …] Notice that the vector consists of many zeros.

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Development Open Source Tuning Network 186

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. The public cloud provides flexibility and cost efficiency through utilizing a provider’s resources. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?” ” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. This is nothing new.

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Network Speed Internet Internet 61

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. Among its many uses, BPF can be used to create powerful performance-analysis tools capable of analyzing everything: CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, languages, applications, and more.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

Storage 213

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 213

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuous cloud monitoring enables real-time detection and response to incidents, with best practices highlighting the importance of assessing cloud service providers, adopting layered security, and leveraging automation for efficient scanning and monitoring. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. These videos can easily be watched millions of times.

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