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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. In 2017, I attended the Women in Big Data conference at Netflix and met with several amazing women in data engineering, including our VP.

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The Innovator's Cunundrum

The Agile Manager

Unfortunately, that volume is staying on manufacturer and dealer balance sheets, because legacy automakers are designing and building EVs that few want to buy. The Cruze sold more in decline than Chevy sold EVs at their peak: 43,669, in 2017. Plenty of automakers are building EVs at volume. Build EVs, check.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. R-related usage on O’Reilly online learning fell by 8% between 2017-18 and by 6%, year-over-year, in 2019. Coincidence?

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. There’s no doubt PostgreSQL provides a solid foundation for innovative development. The challenges can slow down the pace of innovation. The licensing can be expensive, and innovation can be limited or squelched.

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Bringing Rich Experiences to Memory-constrained TV Devices

The Netflix TechBlog

The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. We hypothesized this design would net a far greater visual impact than if the titles were distributed individually throughout the page.

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Intellectual debt: The hidden costs of machine learning

Dynatrace

At some point the debt reaches a tipping point where the high costs of maintenance prevent innovation. Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. The sudden lure of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems designed for IT brings new urgency to the topic of intellectual debt. Intellectual debt.