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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

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How Do You Improve Network Agility?

DZone

The combination of innovative networking concepts (including controllers, orchestrators, network APIs) with automation will drive further improvement in network agility similar to what has been observed in the computing and storage domains.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Replay Traffic Testing Replay traffic refers to production traffic that is cloned and forked over to a different path in the service call graph, allowing us to exercise new/updated systems in a manner that simulates actual production conditions. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. both for compute and storage. Metaflow removes this cognitive overhead. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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Using SLOs to become the optimization athlete with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

In our exercise: Metric 1 (Number of requests with a response time > 1 second): requires the creation of a calculated metric with the right filter. Ability to add the metric in one of your dashboards. Ability to define automatic baselining.

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Carving an AWS certification path

Dynatrace

Hosted and moderated by Amazon, AWS GameDay is a hands-on, collaborative, gamified learning exercise for applying AWS services and cloud skills to real-world scenarios. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner , this was a great opportunity for Dynatrace developers to sharpen their AWS skills and pursue or up-level their Amazon certifications.

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