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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

IT automation is the practice of using coded instructions to carry out IT tasks without human intervention. At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. What is IT automation?

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Shadows

The Agile Manager

There are shadow IT teams of developers or data engineers that spring up in areas like operations or marketing because the captive IT function is slow, if not outright incapable, of responding to internal customer demand. There are also shadow activities of large software delivery programs. The scope taken out of the 1.0

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group.

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Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 All the talks and videos I could find…

Adrian Cockcroft

Margaret leads the worldwide solution architect program for sustainability, and gives an excellent talk on how customers should think about optimizing their workloads. SUS209 — there was no talk with this code. SUS304 to SUS311 No talks with these codes. Good example, well presented interesting new material.

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Mythbusting the Analytics Journey

The Netflix TechBlog

I completed a combined math bachelors + masters program, but without any professional guidance, networking, or internships, I was entirely lost. I entered a PhD program in Computer Science and shortly thereafter discovered I really liked the coding aspects more than the theory. Writing code (SQL, Python) ????

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. In programming, Python is preeminent. Figure 3 (above).

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Scaling Appsec at Netflix (Part 2)

The Netflix TechBlog

a dynamic Asset Inventory that understands the nuances of our bespoke engineering ecosystem and how our applications and data relate to each other. This has evolved their identity to be a software engineering team that focuses on security problems as opposed to a security engineering team that writes code/software.