The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

At Netflix, we have adopted the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern : instead of having one general purpose “backend API”, we have one backend per client (Android/iOS/TV/web). We did this migration without slowing down the usual cadence of our releases, and with particular care to avoid any negative effects to the user experience.

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Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

What Kotlin has that Java does not. Kotlin’s official documentation is great and there are many introductory articles to Kotlin language on medium, so I won’t be explaining the basics and syntax but wanted to present some unique features that Java doesn’t have and makes Kotlin stand out.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? For UX designers, product managers, developers - essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. Using Webpagetest.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. In reality, you might go through this process once in a sequential order, but you’ll be iterating on each step and jumping back-and-forth between steps after that. The following caveats should always be kept in mind.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article I’ll outline my mental model why multithreading is important on the web, I’ll give you an introduction to the primitives that we as developers have at our disposal, and I’ll talk a bit about architectures that make it easy to adopt multithreading, even incrementally. The State Of Web Workers In 2021. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00.

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Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. Languages: Java.

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