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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

If we accept the fact that Agile is a value system and not a set of mechanical processes, it stands to reason that there must be something different about the norms and behaviors of Agile managers vis-a-vis traditional managers. An Agile story is an expression of end-to-end business need.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. We will use xMatters’ Flow Designer to create toolchains that automate remediation, and Dynatrace’ keptn to automate continuous operations. Flow Designer rolls back through keptn.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Run-time errors should be reported using exceptions, error codes, or similar.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. Developers and designers who are skilled in building with performance in mind would likely be in higher demand.

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Embrace change The only constant in the universe is change.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. The first and most obvious is that they are long on how to start, but short on how to finish.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

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. And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 25, 2021

Some of these are exercised by the “wrong order” permutations above, but even call sites that remember the right argument order can make mistakes about the actual values. But if the sight of these function signatures has had you pulling your hair and shouting “use the type system, Luke!” is_reachable? Language support.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Core systems are a complex web of integrated rules and functions spun over generations. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. The existing systems have their shortcomings, but we run a multi-billion dollar business on that code, so we must be pretty good at software. Destiny awaits.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Devin Harold. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

How to assess an environment’s security posture, risk and threat profile, and possible attack vectors, where perhaps you didn’t code the application or build the infrastructure, and where new code is deployed frequently, and the infrastructure is constantly changing? And this poses a significant risk. Showing a list of key processes.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. And we state in the documentation the following regarding tempdb: Transparent Data Encryption and the tempdb System Database. For more information about the tempdb system database, see tempdb Database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The tester established a baseline by selecting the most critical, common, or obvious path through the code selection. Steps to Performing Basis Path Testing The first step is to create a control flow graph for a specified code section. The second step is to select a baseline path through the code.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

During the recent pandemic, organizations that lack processes and systems to scale and adapt to remote workforces and increased online shopping are feeling the pressure even more. Then, using a design thinking process , ideate on the future and establish the business vision. What are the key requirements to address these challenges?

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

If a PostgreSQL user wants to change these values, they need to recompile the PostgreSQL from the source code. This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-14.service. But another database might be an OLAP system.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Using high-fidelity metrics, logs, code-level tracing, and a dynamic topology map of your applications, Davis can identify the precise root cause and prioritize its business impact.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. And we should define current best practices in the management of AI systems and make them mandatory , subject to regular, consistent disclosures and auditing, much as we require public companies to regularly disclose their financials. In his book Voices in the Code , James G.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you peek under the hood of an ML-powered application, these days you will often find a repository of Python code. Let’s start by considering the job of a non-ML software engineer: writing traditional software deals with well-defined, narrowly-scoped inputs, which the engineer can exhaustively and cleanly model in the code.

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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. Compliance by design is a cool concept, makes life easier for developers. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. PLOS’19.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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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? Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels. Gathering timestapms of changes made to application code during the outage. A coded timelime was created dividing activities into three main types: Coordination activities. First look for any correlation to the last change made to the system.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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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. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. Sandboxing is now universal (tho quality may differ) and we collectively got savvy about running code quickly while retaining memory safety. AAA gaming, CAD).

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John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? Interacting components in the execution of an MPI job — a brief outline (from memory): The user source code, which contains an ordered set of calls to MPI routines.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

I am so pleased to see a database systems paper addressing the concerns of the application developer! To the developer, a strongly consistent system behaves exactly like a single-threaded system running on a single node, so reasoning about the behaviour of the system is simple 1. VLDB’19.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems. Today, data needs to be available at all times, serving its users—both humans and computer systems—across all time zones, continuously, in close to real time.

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We have to specify with great precision in code exactly what our business rules are, and the computer will apply them exactly as we tell it to. If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. I actually saw Gojko’s talk live at NDC OSLO in 2018.

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