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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

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Friends don't let friends build data pipelines

Abhishek Tiwari

Unfortunately, building data pipelines remains a daunting, time-consuming, and costly activity. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines.

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Scaling Appsec at Netflix (Part 2)

The Netflix TechBlog

Our goal is to manage security risks to Netflix via clear, opinionated security guidance, and by providing risk context to Netflix engineering teams to make pragmatic risk decisions at scale. Our hiring has reflected that shift, and we’ve added more dedicated software engineers (SWEs) to the team to help us build out software.