The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. 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.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For the first episode, one of our software engineers, Tim Van Der Kooi, interviewed Ryan Nosworthy. Ryan is a senior software engineer here at Tasktop, and he’s working on been working on Tasktop Viz, our new product that we unveiled at DOES 2019 last week. We have a small team at Viz, there are five engineers.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 31, 2018

Update Oct 2018 – SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0. SQL Server 2019 changes the DELTE On CLOSE behavior used on Linux installations. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The downside of using unlink or remove, and keeping the file descriptor open, is that the file becomes hidden. Restart the VM.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The authors backtested Watchman by replaying the evolution history of all libraries on PyPI from the 1st January 2017 to the 30th June 2019. Watchman was used for online monitoring of PyPI from 11th July 2019, detecting and predicting 189 further dependency conflict issues in the period to the 16th August.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Industries of survey respondents. Organization size of survey respondents.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Although, a particularly proud moment for me was also to get over my fear of public speaking and present at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in London. The TaskTalks Podcast is back: ‘A Day in the Life of a Senior Software Engineer’ The post A Day in the Life of a … Value Stream Architect appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Adventures in Coderland author Andrew Smith discusses the journey he’s taken while learning to code. Having started from a place of not knowing anything about coding, Smith says he went much deeper into it than he thought he would.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

The latest consolidated financials (PDF) are from 2020 and show that, without marketing expenses, Mozilla spends between $380 and $430 million US per year on software development. Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The first was that there were too many security things that each software team needed to think about?—?things In 2019, essentially 100% of the Wall-E app configuration was done manually by developers. Julia & Patrick (Netflix Application Security): In deciding how to address this, we focused on two observations.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 11, 2017

SQL Server 2019 CTP2. SQL Server 2019 adds broad support for distributed transactions (both MSDTC/OLE-TX and XA) to SQL Server on Linux. However, SQL Server 2017 on Windows provides distributed transaction support allowing interactions with SQL Server 2019 on Linux. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

In late 2019, our team started integrating it with the rest of the ecosystem by writing a thin Java Domain graph service (DGS) to wrap the asynchronous watermarking functionality that was then in Ruby on Rails.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As we were establishing Hub Cloud, Neelan (Tasktop President and COO) also tasked me with taking on leading the cross-functional launch of Tasktop Viz at DevOps Vegas 2019. . What does a typical day as the VP of Operations look like for you? Conference calls, conference calls, conference calls. View job opportunities.

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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. You will find that the paradigms you choose for other parties won’t align with the expectations for children, and modifying your software to accommodate children is difficult or impossible. About 40% of all households have a child.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. Another data point from Miller’s presentation: in 2018 57-70% of the average software project comprises open source components, and that fraction is rising fast.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server 2019 builds DLLs and EXEs with 4KB file alignment to enable better demand paging. SQL Server 2019. For SQL Server 2019 executables COMDAT is enabled and I made the ~1500 uses of function pointer comparison COMDAT compliant. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. . SQL Server 2017.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

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. Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). Success with containers.

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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+%). Almost one-quarter (23%) of respondents work in the software industry ( Figure 3 ). Respondent Demographics.

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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. Online Controlled Experiments (OCEs) are becoming a standard operating procedure in data-driven software companies.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For example, SQL Server 2019 supports DTC/XA transactions. In fact, our performance team is evaluating a SQL Server 2019 change that never opens the TEMPDB file with the FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH. using SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.2. Robert Dorr – SQL Server – Principle Software Engineer Editing Assistance – Nathan Dorr.

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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.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses.

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