The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? You study and practice coding interview problems for hours/days/weeks/months, only to be asked to merge two sorted lists.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

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DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When you start learning how to code your main focus is writing code that works correctly for the problem you are solving. Yes, code needs to work correctly and that is a good place to start learning. However, in a real work environment, you also want to ensure you write clean code.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. This is natural, yet this is also a big problem.

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DZone

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. SRE focuses on automation.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

MARCH 13, 2024

As software engineers, we are always striving for high performance and efficiency in our code. One powerful way that can help us accurately measure the performance of our code is a process called benchmarking, and we’ll look at how to use BenchmarkDotNet with our C# code.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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Tasktop

MAY 31, 2019

This can be a challenge for engineering teams: engineers can be less social and more competitive than non-engineers. We’re typically heads-down, and it seems any interaction we have is just business: problem solving, design discussions, code review comments, story planning. This came up as an issue on my team.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

We can say that system scalability is about supporting a linear rate of growth in system resource requirements given that code running inside the system is unchanged. Software engineering team scalability is equally important. Software Engineering Team Scalability.

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Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. Software Engineers, was introduced to the fundamental concepts and tools on which Tasktop is built.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 23, 2020

He’s one of our Senior Software Engineers and Team Leads who works remotely in Germany. Probably very different from most other Tasktopians; I’m a remote engineer from the south-west of Germany. I’m a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead of one of the Tasktop Integration Hub teams. Meet Jordi Böhme!

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. With Configuration as Code, developers can manage their observability and security tasks with config files that can be developed alongside source code conveniently and at scale.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Why is developer observability important for engineers? But developers need code-level visibility and code-level data.” KubeCon North America is this week.

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DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering expertise to DevOps and operations problems.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over the past decade, DevOps has emerged as a new tech culture and career that marries the rapid iteration desired by software development with the rock-solid stability of the infrastructure operations team. As of August 2019, there are currently over 50,000 LinkedIn DevOps job listings in the United States alone.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Adopt an “everything as code” philosophy using APIs and version-controlled artifacts.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By helping teams release new software more frequently, DevOps practices are an essential component of digital transformation. Yet, ensuring code quality and breaking down silos are some of the many challenges that come with DevOps methodologies. Automation versus orchestration. Get started with DevOps orchestration.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Incident management with clearly defined responsibilities Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) are challenged not only to detect problems and identify the root cause quickly but also to remediate problems immediately. Any software engineer can search for monitored entities that relate to specific deployments and their respective teams.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. Moreover, it takes an average of nine hours for a software engineer to remediate a problem within a production application.

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Uber Engineering

JUNE 15, 2021

It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability. It also … The post Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Try it today using Keptn .

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Composite’ AI, platform engineering, AI data analysis through custom apps This focus on data reliability and data quality also highlights the need for organizations to bring a “ composite AI ” approach to IT operations, security, and DevOps. To learn more about platform engineering, explore the following resources.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Ultimately, Keptn reduces code automation by 90% and makes every component SLO-driven.

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DZone

AUGUST 21, 2019

Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. When managers lean on using lines of code to measure their engineers’ velocity, you can understand why these same engineers have a problem with that as overly simplistic.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Though I have spent the last ~17 years (In 2021) of my life coding and perfecting my Java and J2EE skill — I suddenly feel. Ahem, Slow!

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Readable code is usable code. The world’s greatest chefs never put anything on the plate that will never be eaten, this rule corresponds to the YAGNI principle in Software Engineering. Such non-used code blocks may affect code readability in the future.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. If a malicious attacker can identify a key software vulnerability, they can exploit the vulnerability, allowing them to gain access to your systems.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

But, as Justin Scherer, senior software engineer from Northwestern Mutual found, OpenTelemetry by itself is not a panacea. OpenTelemetry works by providing developers with APIs, SDKs, and tools to instrument their code and collect telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

Software was written in Motorola 6800 assembler, using a PDP-11 running Unix V6 as a development platform. That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems. I’m still working on What Adrian Did Next?—?Part

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