The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Well, it’s simply an apt allegory when it comes to dealing with tests in a code base. These traps might feel like an unexpected ambush when you’re working on a code base, especially when doing so for a long time. In this article, I’ll tell you the pitfalls I’ve run into in my career — some of which were my fault.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In time, these misapprehensions would become cursed articles of faith: CPUs get faster every year [ narrator: they do not ] Organisations can manage these complex stacks [ narrator: they cannot ] All of this was falsified by 2016 , but nobody wanted to turn on the house lights while the JS party was in full swing. ." And why not?

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