Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

How we spend our time and apply our resources when developing software systems is possibly the most fundamental and difficult challenge. A natural tendency for software engineers is to gravitate towards the most technically interesting challenges. I can confirm from my own personal experiences, although it’s not always the case.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Enterprises in every industry are developing strategies for digitally transforming their businesses at every level. Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context. Flock is Microsoft’s reference architecture built to explore these ideas.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Just a manual testing approach would not suffice for today’s wired devices and dynamic architectural applications of Industry 4.0. The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. A clear warning sign.

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Plus, the architecture of the Edge tier was evolving to a PaaS (platform as a service) model, and we had some tough decisions to make about how, and where, to handle identity token handling. The system architecture now takes the form of: Notice that tokens never traverse past the Edge gateway / EAS boundary. We are serving over 2.5

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Supporting developers through those checklists for edge cases, and then validating that each team’s choices resulted in an architecture with all the desired security properties, was similarly not scalable for our security engineers. With these lofty goals in mind, we turned to our central engineering teams to help get us there.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. While MVPs have been mainstream for a long time, the concept of Value Streams and Value Stream Architecture is still in the early adopter phase in the DevOps world. I believe it originated in Lean Manufacturing in the 70s or 80s.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

Serverless architectures help developers innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure. Dynatrace is happy to announce its enhanced AWS Lambda extension, expanding its support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda and serverless architectures. AWS Lambda?extension

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

. • More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). For this audience, SRE’s future is brighter than AI’s, however. Respondent Demographics.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. Random sampling While the above two strategies combined can detect most data corruptions, they do occasionally miss. While “ keep the design simple ” is a frequently shared learning in software engineering, it is not always easy to achieve.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, in various use cases. Acknowledgements Thanks to our Product Manager Ashim Pokharel for driving the strategy and requirements.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software. Software engineers contribute to designing the products and features they are building. I hope you also enjoyed my highlights, but I would still recommend reading the whole story in the book.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging. This post is a high level overview of the design and architecture of Gutenberg. A publisher publishes to a topic and consumers consume from a topic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In order to achieve this level of availability, we leverage an N+1 architecture where we treat Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions as fault domains, allowing us to withstand single region failures. Though this evacuation capability exists today, this level of resiliency wasn’t always the standard for the Netflix API.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. So remember to always keep the chocolate sauce heuristic in mind: Classification is multi-dimensional.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. At the core, a traditional CMS is a monolith.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. In most curriculums, undergrad students do not have much exposure to computer architecture. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020. Hope to see you there.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Read about our Architecture and Allocation Strategy , how we’ve been Reimagining Experimentation , our Design Principles for Mathematical Engineering , and how we leverage Computational Causal Inference to support innovation and scale on our democratized platform. without having to become software engineers themselves.

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