The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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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Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 18, 2018

SQL Server is designed to scale across the spectrum of small machines to enterprise class servers. The changes made in SQL Server 2017 CU4 improve resource usage on smaller machines, such as a VM or Container used for testing and development. For SQL Server 2017 CU4 the small environment threshold is 2GB. What Is A Small System?

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Servers Best Practices Software Engineering Operating System 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Safe software deployment, canary testing, and play-delay Software engineering readers of this blog are likely familiar with unit, integration and load testing, as well as other testing practices that aim to prevent bugs from reaching production systems.

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Testing Software Software Metrics 239

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) Testing shows that locking mechanisms, such as spin locks, start to become saturated when shared across 8 to 12 CPUs and where the physics become a direct contributor to partitioned design. SQL Server 2017. Reference Automatic Soft NUMA. SQL Server 2019.

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IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s easy to make experimental design mistakes that invalidate your online controlled experiments. PlanAlyzer acts a bit like a linter for online experiment designs, where those designs are specified in the PlanOut language. Experimental design with PlanOut. What can go wrong in experiment design?

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns.

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Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47