The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

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. This would be a significant departure from its existing policy based system.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

If you are not familiar with the functional programming or data storage concepts that come up, talk to one of your developers who do. Over the course of days she follows the flow of that ticket through departmental silos and multiple tracking systems. By definition, product value streams have to be aligned to a customer.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. Both a wide and deep knowledge of the business and domain is essential.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. To make ML applications production-ready from the beginning, developers must adhere to the same set of standards as all other production-grade software.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. An abstract example of a high-level value stream for a single development team A value stream at the level of detail above isn’t particularly useful. The details can vary quite a lot.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. But, the over-focus on micro has detracted from the true benefits of microservices which are about improving the quality and speed of development. There is no need to redesign and rewrite your system to be compliant with the latest architecture buzz word.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

It seems to us that the results of our survey offer a point-in-time snapshot of the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development, and other emergent areas. More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Respondent Demographics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Product Taxonomy Products and Platforms are the components of a business’s architecture that I find the most interesting and revealing, so my template starts with a Product Taxonomy section. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al. s suggested product taxonomy It’s not mandatory to use these definitions.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. Group Patterns The following list is as a sample of archetypical patterns rather than a definitive list. One example is the mobile department, a group of mobile development teams who each own a part of a mobile app.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. The first developer proposes a push model: bounded contexts should instruct the notifications context to send a notification. It’s a route for information flowing in and out of the system. Definitely not.

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