The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A performance engineer is actually a professional performance testing and engineering expert with in-depth knowledge of many load-testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Neoload, Gatling, K6, etc., and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a systematic and data-driven approach to improving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems. It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Embedded systems have become an integral part of our daily lives, from smartphones and home appliances to medical devices and industrial machinery. These systems are designed to perform specific tasks efficiently, often in real-time, without the complexities of a general-purpose computer.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

I spoke with Martin Spier, PicPay’s VP of Engineering, about the challenges PicPay experienced and the Kubernetes platform engineering strategy his team adopted in response. “Our development teams relied heavily on logs to understand what was going on with our systems,” he said. billion. .

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

We are proud to s hare Dynatrace has been named the winner in the “ Best Overall AI-based Analytics Company ” category, recognized for our innovation and the business-driving impact of our AI engine, Davis. . The post Dynatrace wins AI Breakthrough Award for Davis AI engine appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As Peter Sondergaard, former SVP of Gartner, insightfully stated, "Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine." Although this approach was serviceable in a less dynamic business climate, it falls far short of the agile and instantaneous demands that define modern markets.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As a result, problems introduced during system development could not be discovered before the release. While it's well-received in the community with its rich fault injection types and easy-to-use dashboard, it was difficult to use Chaos Mesh with end-to-end testing or the continuous integration (CI) process.

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the dynamic world of online services, the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) has risen as a pivotal discipline, ensuring that large-scale systems maintain their performance and reliability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Five of the most common include cluster instability, resource and cost management, security, observability, and stress on engineering teams.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

So I wanted to write a message to anyone looking to grow into engineering leadership. In some instances, these individuals stood their ground and continued forward in the face of violence, war, political and economic systems, beliefs, and stereotypes never before challenged.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Site reliability engineering first emerged to address cloud computing’s new performance needs. Today, the platform engineer role is gaining speed as the newest byproduct of scaling DevOps in the emerging but complex cloud-native world. Understanding the platform engineer role DevOps is a constantly evolving discipline.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Our audits would detect this and alert the on-call data engineer (DE).

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

A transformative journey into the realm of system design with our tutorial, tailored for software engineers aspiring to architect solutions that seamlessly scale to serve millions of users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Planned effort Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) effort and time allocation planning typically fall into two domains: Operations Management (50%) Operations Management includes on-call responsibilities, post-mortem assessments, addressing other interruptions, and buffer time. These practices are commonly known as “ chaos engineering. ”

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” What are DevOps engineer tools and platforms.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2024

In the world of software engineering, where complex systems are the norm, ensuring reliability and resilience is paramount. However, traditional testing methods often fall short of uncovering hidden vulnerabilities and edge cases that could lead to system failures. What Is Chaos Engineering?

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri and Senthil Sayeebaba Over the past few years Content Engineering at Netflix has been transitioning many of its services to use a federated GraphQL platform. it began to power a significant portion of the user experience for many applications within Content Engineering.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Here is where machine learning (ML) systems and predictive analytics enter: to end ambiguity. Most times, we already know the output even though it needs to be better defined — less ambiguous with clear boundaries of where a regression falls.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become increasingly important to organizations looking to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments.

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DZone

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the dynamic realm of modern software development and operations, terms such as Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) are frequently used, sometimes interchangeably, often causing confusion among professionals entering or navigating these domains.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

False positives are instances where the system incorrectly identifies a regular event as an anomaly, leading to unnecessary investigative efforts and operational delays. This article delves into a specialized approach for anomaly detection that makes extensive use of a rule-based engine.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Because of its adaptability, Prometheus has become an essential tool for observability engineering.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

What happened and its significance on other systems and the business. Check out the full Perform 2023 session: “ Reduce engineering toil with automation.” ” The post How automated workflows and multicloud automation can reduce engineering toil appeared first on Dynatrace news. Information on next steps.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline in which automated software systems are built to manage the development operations (DevOps) of a product or service. In other words, SRE automates the functions of an operations team via software systems.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2023

End-to-End Testing in Scaled Agile Framework End-to-End testing in SAFe Agile is a critical aspect of ensuring the seamless functionality and integration of software systems across the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

User provides a sample image to find other similar images Prior engineering work Approach #1: on-demand batch processing Our first approach to surface these innovations was a tool to trigger these algorithms on-demand and on a per-show basis. Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering.

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DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A good SRE engineer will tell you your service is never down. A great SRE engineer will tell you that’s not what you should be measuring. In fact, they’ll tell you their job is customer service.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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DZone

JULY 24, 2024

In today's AI era, the architecture of AI systems is becoming increasingly complex, making its stability, resource utilization, and fault self-healing capabilities increasingly important. Chaos engineering is about proactively exposing and addressing system vulnerabilities, greatly enhancing system resilience.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Since most application releases depend on cloud infrastructure, having good continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and end-to-end observability becomes essential for ensuring highly available systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

By the summer of 2020, many UI engineers were ready to move to GraphQL. The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations.

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