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ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity Types

The Netflix TechBlog

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database.

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh

The Netflix TechBlog

In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases. With this batch style approach, several issues have surfaced like data movement is tightly coupled with database tables, database schema is not an exact mapping of business data model, and data being stale given it is not real time etc.

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Practical API Design at Netflix, Part 1: Using Protobuf FieldMask

The Netflix TechBlog

By default, gRPC uses protobuf as its IDL (interface definition language) and data serialization protocol. If the service knows which fields are important for the caller, it can make an informed decision about making expensive calls, starting resource-heavy computations, and/or calling the database. Our protobuf message definition (.proto

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly

It takes the prompt and just returns one of the most similar “training documents” it has in its database, verbatim. I should probably also define what I mean by “legitimate/illegitimate” or at least point to a definition. Google has an alternative solution that supports journalism. joined Flickr. joined Flickr.

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Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

The Netflix TechBlog

We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. Maestro high level architecture In Maestro, a workflow is a DAG (Directed acyclic graph) of individual units of job definition called Steps.

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Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

Open source databases, like MySQL and PostgreSQL, are among the most widely used and popular databases for workloads large and small. WordPress, in fact, powers this blog and uses a MySQL database to store its content.) The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases EULAs, on the other hand, are non-standard and ever-changing.