High Scalability

JANUARY 25, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering answers this need so organizations can deliver robust, resilient cloud-native applications that can stand up under any conditions. What is chaos engineering? Chaos engineers ask why. As chaos engineers grow confident in their testing, they change more variables and broaden the scope of the disaster.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

There are 2 major challenges to succeed in our mission: We want to democratize the platform and create a contribution model: with a developer and production deployment experience that is designed for data scientists and friendly to the stacks they use. We support data scientists to have freedom to explore research in any new direction.

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

A transformative journey into the realm of system design with our tutorial, tailored for software engineers aspiring to architect solutions that seamlessly scale to serve millions of users.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Planned effort Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) effort and time allocation planning typically fall into two domains: Operations Management (50%) Operations Management includes on-call responsibilities, post-mortem assessments, addressing other interruptions, and buffer time. These practices are commonly known as “ chaos engineering. ”

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” What are DevOps engineer tools and platforms.

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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 Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Our audits would detect this and alert the on-call data engineer (DE).

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

A Validation Framework For Unreal Engine By Adam Davis, Jimmy Fusil, Bhanu Srikanth and Girish Balakrishnan Game Engines in Virtual Production The use of Virtual Production and real time technologies has markedly accelerated in the past few years. Virtual Production?—?A

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become increasingly important to organizations looking to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. If so, we invite you to begin the interview process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview 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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? The solution we use within the Netflix Studio Engineering is protobuf FieldMask. This blog post covered how and why it is used at Netflix Studio Engineering for APIs that read the data.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. A lesser design cannot possibly move 16 bytes per cycle. This base design can map easily onto many current chips. Thought Experiment. bytes remaining to move. Longer Prefetching matters.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie 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. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated In the Growth Engineering team, we refer to this as the top of the signup funnel. For more background on the signup funnel and Growth Engineering’s role in the signup funnel, please read our initial post on the topic: Growth Engineering at Netflix? Accelerating Innovation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri and Senthil Sayeebaba Over the past few years Content Engineering at Netflix has been transitioning many of its services to use a federated GraphQL platform. The Studio Search platform was designed to take a portion of the federated graph, a subgraph rooted at an entity of interest, and make it searchable.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2019

Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Ricky Gardiner , Alex Borysov Background In our previous post , we discussed how we utilize FieldMask as a solution when designing our APIs so that consumers can request the data they need when fetched via gRPC. API designers should aim for simplicity, but make their APIs open for extension and evolution.

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DZone

AUGUST 17, 2020

How do you test a design system? You got here because you either have a design system or know you need one. Marie Drake , Principal Test Automation Engineer at News UK , presented her webinar, " Roadmap To Testing A Design System ", where she discussed this topic in some detail.

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InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri , and Senthil Sayeebaba In a previous post , we described the indexing architecture of Studio Search and how we scaled the architecture by building a config-driven self-service platform that allowed teams in Content Engineering to spin up search indices easily. Below are a couple of examples.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. The culture was also something that piqued my interest.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

But because of the complexity involved in executing and analyzing test results of dynamic systems, performance engineering is difficult to scale — especially with lean staff or resources. Grabner also introduced four ways organizations can turbocharge their performance engineering with automation. Automating root cause analysis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the Amazon RDS Service Ready designation. Achieving this designation differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Advanced Technology Partner with a product that is integrated with Amazon RDS and is generally available and fully supported. Next steps.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Very often, I heard that chaos engineering is only a technique used by larger companies (like Netflix) or in cloud native environments. You should read on if: You want to get an idea what chaos engineering is. You want to know if chaos engineering is only usable in cloud native environments. Dynatrace news. Controlled Chaos.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2020

In October 2014, Uber had started its journey of scale in what … The post Designing Edge Gateway, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Evolution of Uber’s API gateway.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time. Frederick O’Brien.

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InfoQ

JANUARY 25, 2023

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator. By Rogerio Robetti

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Uber Engineering

JANUARY 16, 2023

If you have read our previous article, ML Education at Uber: Frameworks Inspired by Engineering Principles, you have seen several examples of how Uber benefits from applying Engineering Principles to drive the ML Education Program’s content design and program frameworks.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

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