The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The GUI can be extended with plugins, allowing the community to build integrations to other systems, custom visualizations, and embed upcoming features of Metaflow directly into its views. link] Metaflow is a full-stack framework for data science that we started developing at Netflix over four years ago and which we open-sourced in 2019.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

However, they are scattered across multiple systems, and there isn’t an easy way to tie related messages together. You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why? Things got hairy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Nearly all of the blockers related to systems in which (usually for historical reasons) some application team was solving both authentication and application routing in a custom way. A big part of their work is this idea of harvesting developer intent and automating the necessary touchpoints across our systems.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 31, 2018

The unlink or remove syscall makes changes to the file system so searching for the file by name returns no entries and when the file descriptor is closed the file is deleted. Update Oct 2018 – SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0. SQL Server 2019 changes the DELTE On CLOSE behavior used on Linux installations. Restart the VM.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

Partitioning allows SQL Server to scale to the largest systems with record-setting performance. When promoted to a super-latch on a 64 CPU system the memory requirement becomes 32 + (32 *64) = 2080 bytes. However, on smaller systems and VMs the partitioning may not be required to maintain performance. SQL Server 2019.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. Success with microservices means owning the software lifecycle. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level? In all cases we need to be able to carefully monitor the impact on the system, and back out if things start going badly wrong. Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

This week we’ll be looking at a selection of papers from the 2019 edition of the ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing ( SoCC ). Reverb: speculative debugging for web applications , Netravali & Mickens, SOCC’19. candidate bug-fixes) during replay. candidate bug-fixes) during replay.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

In 2019, YouTube had to settle with the FTC for a $170 million fine for selling ads targeting children. There may be alarm systems. There have been cases of harassment, intimidation, and domestic abuse by people whose access should have been revoked: for example, an ex-partner turning off the heating system.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). For this audience, SRE’s future is brighter than AI’s, however. Respondent Demographics.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At the same time, by engaging with the paper and the topic I’m getting clearer in my own mind as to what my requirements for a future application composition system would be. Declarative assembly of web applications from predefined concepts De Rosso et al., I chose this paper to challenge my own thinking.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. Search engines pay browser makers for default placement within their products. When regulators and legislators began asking questions in 2019, a response was required.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 9, 2019

Last time out we looked at machine learning at Microsoft , where we learned among other things that using an online controlled experiment (OCE) approach to rolling out changes to ML-centric software is important. Three key checklists and remedies for trustworthy analysis of online controlled experiments at scale Fabijan et al.,

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