The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol. Java…Script?

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

First and foremost, inversion helps product managers identify potential risks and challenges early in the product development process. This proactive approach allows you to incorporate necessary safeguards and contingencies into your product strategy, minimizing the chances of failure.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After working on a coding project for a good couple of hours, many developers like myself tend to hit a wall. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Simple Mental Health Routine For Developers. Physical Exercise. Dave Oscar.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. Business benefits include: Improved developer and operational productivity. Application performance. Why businesses need APM.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

5] The program cannot recover programmatically by reporting a run-time error to the calling code (via an exception, error code, or similar), because by definition the program is in a state it was not designed to handle, so the calling code isn’t ready for that state. It’s time to terminate and restart the program. Goldstine and J.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. That is why we run a workload designed exactly for this purpose as it gives us a “benchmark” 2.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Hence the DSLabs framework integrates model checking into a holistic distributed systems development environment (based on Java as the implementation language – it would be neat to see a Rust version!).

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

In some cases, if only a very few, these assets continue to be used because they still work very well, were thoughtfully designed, and have been well cared for over the years. A basic premise is that there are alternatives to traditional "lift and shift" strategies by retiring legacy assets in a piecemeal fashion.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. As Chris likes to say, a front-end developer is aware. At the beginning of my development, I thought I might need certain assets or frameworks.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. And because something is happening, they usually exercise a good amount of patience first.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. One of the several deployment strategies is the blue/green deployment approach: In this method, two identical production environments work in parallel. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

The most common programming task that a typical software developer has to deal with is: receiving input, transforming it, and producing output. Its strategies for flow control are either stop-and-wait (i.e., One of the key aspects—as trivial as it is profound—is that data is coming from somewhere, and ends up somewhere else.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He demonstrated how a more elegant functional design—combining immutability, purity, and duality of code and data—can save larger enterprises millions of dollars, as demonstrated by his previous work at Walmart. He had a strategy. Compliance by design is a cool concept, makes life easier for developers.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sometimes, this can be achieved with relatively minimal disruption, like when the products are highly distinct and can be developed fully in-parallel. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Defining Aggregate Boundaries Deciding that specific business operations should succeed or fail together sounds like a simple requirements gathering exercise. The developers decide that a single 10 minute Slot is their Aggregate boundary. just see incompetent developers waffling about tech. They don’t understand software, they.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. What problem are we solving? Its logs are collected in an ELK stack.

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