The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?),

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. What problem are we solving? Mount ranges of objects? — ? Regional caching? —?Netflix

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

“That’s what GPS says”—well, GPS is usually right, but I have seen GPS systems tell me to go the wrong way down a one-way street. In many ways, we’ve come to think of computers and computing systems as oracles. It’s hard to be innovative when all you know is React. Or another massive, overbuilt framework.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

When you can effectively consult a dozen experts anytime you like, it changes how companies organize, how we innovate and how each of us approaches learning and decision-making. That is, the future belongs to t hose who are exercising the intelligence and insight that AI itself does not have. Their creations, not so much.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Even a conflict with the operating system or the specific device being used to access the app can degrade an application’s performance. Increased time spent on innovation. Increasing revenue.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

Whether it’s a compelling new series or an innovative product feature, we strive to provide a best-in-class service that people love and can enjoy anytime, anywhere. Reliability, formally speaking, is the ability of a system to function under stated conditions for a period of time. Our primary focus is ensuring Netflix stays up.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Can an AI system be creative and, if so, what would that creativity look like? I’m skeptical about AI creativity, though recently I hypothesized that an AI system optimized for “hallucinations” might be the start of “artificial creativity.” We don’t know; a number of cases are in the legal system now. So, what is creativity?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely. These articles will also help you understand how to opt out from the telemetry, how it is being sent to Percona, and how you can exercise your data owners’ rights.

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Percona

JULY 3, 2023

With Enterprise Linux 7 nearing its end-of-life date, the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team has done a significant update to the base operating system we build our images on top of. we’re making PMM publicly available on a newer base operating system based on Enterprise Linux 9 (EL9), specifically Oracle Linux 9.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer. It has been an exciting journey—one of thought leadership and innovation—that has enabled us to bring the promise of more elasticity and the flexibility to resize workloads, while retaining availability, consistency, and performance. The system is more robust.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In addition, it can also inculcate resources such as articles, podcasts, and breathing exercises to help users develop coping strategies and resilience. Users can access interactive maps, trail recommendations, and educational content highlighting ecological systems, biodiversity, and conservation efforts.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Administrative systems indicate whether a workplace is high- or low-integrity because they communicate the extent to which trust is extended to individuals. Are the administrative systems an enabling mechanism for labor or a control mechanism over labor? Which brings us back to the RTO mandates.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . But from all those hotspots, identifying the system constraint , the one big, juicy bottleneck that is at this very moment is negating and undermining the benefits from your optimization efforts?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Some engines go further, adopting safer systems languages in their first lines of defence, or using a larger number of sandboxes to strictly isolate individual websites from each other.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. It is also an indicator of how effectively IT drives innovation.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Indeterminate counterparty risk in a highly interconnected financial system means there’s a chance capital markets could get blindsided yet again, so hedge funds are front and centre of the regulatory debate. Because capital is globally mobile, markets must innovate to remain competitive.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Core systems are a complex web of integrated rules and functions spun over generations.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . But from all those hotspots, identifying the system constraint , the one big, juicy bottleneck that at this very moment is negating and undermining the benefits from your optimization efforts?

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. Portable, safe apps returned massive benefits to users who no longer needed to LARP as systems administrators.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. If you buy the cheapest knob-twisters that money can buy, how could you possibly have any expectation for creative thought and innovative output? It's not a hotbed of innovation.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. From those innovations came products, solutions, and even categories that didn’t previously exist. 4 White, Erin. “

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

Knowledge sharing exercises were canceled due to last minute "customer emergencies". Committing to this kind of change requires executive understanding of businesses as social systems and executive commitment to a future state defined by behaviour patterns. Account managers controlled and outright blocked access to customers.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 15, 2025

Teams invest weeks building complex AI systems but cant tell me if their changes are helping or hurting. Ive watched teams struggle with generic labeling interfaces, hunting through multiple systems just to understand a single interaction. Dont make users hunt through different systems to understand what happened.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

Replacing one-off paper-and-pen value stream mapping exercises, Tasktop Viz continuously measures the flow of work through the configured value streams. This is when the production capital of innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Auditors – a powerful asset to help you innovate . Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. I didn’t always make the same leap with her, but the thought exercise was fun nonetheless. Connections by James Burke 4 ⁄ 5 Burke’s Connections TV series is magnificent stuff.

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