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Hawkins: Diving into the Reasoning Behind our Design System

The Netflix TechBlog

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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What they don't tell you about migrating a message-based system to the cloud

Particular Software

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow

The Netflix TechBlog

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. All the code you get with the Dataflow sample workflows is fully functional, adjusted to your environment and isolated from other sample workflows that others generated.

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Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow

The Netflix TechBlog

any business logic code in a raw (e.g. see “data pipeline” Intro The problem of managing scheduled workflows and their assets is as old as the use of cron daemon in early Unix operating systems. The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done.

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Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons

Smashing Magazine

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

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Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

The Netflix TechBlog

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

Java 202
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Microservices: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Software

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Microservices are an alternative to monolithic systems. Large and centralized systems can present a host of challenges. Codebases grow as we write code to add new features.