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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. It makes business sense to hire cheap programmers and put in place a standard process. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging.

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What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments. Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. Why is platform engineering important?

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. For a given rate-quality operating point, the DO process helps allocate bits among the various shots while maximizing an overall objective function. The DO encodes are shot-based and so the IDR frames align with shot boundaries.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi, what’s your journey to data engineering at Netflix?

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SRE vs DevOps: What you need to know

Dynatrace

DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is not a specific process, but rather a general collection of flexible software creation and delivery practices that looks to close the gap between software development and IT operations.

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