The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

These methods can provide rich information for decision making, such as in experimentation platforms (“XP”) or in algorithmic policy engines. We want to amplify the effectiveness of our researchers by providing them software that can estimate causal effects models efficiently, and can integrate causal effects into large engineering systems.

Software Engineering 233

Software Engineering Scalability Engineering Strategy 233

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. EuroSys’19. On the surface you might think today’s paper selection an odd pick.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. The graphic below (Fig.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

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.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. While this is a relatively stream-lined process, it is not as efficient if a candidate is interested in or qualified for multiple roles within the organization. The interview panel consists of two or three engineers, a hiring manager and a recruiter.

Engineering 199

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 199

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Enter AI observability, which uses AI to understand the performance and cost-effectiveness details of various systems in an IT environment.

Performance 176

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 176

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

Infrastructure 219

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

Storage 187

Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. see the end of those relationships when members elect to cancel.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Dynatrace news. So, why is all this important?

Open Source 159

Open Source Cloud Games Java 159

High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education AWS Software Engineering Scalability 100

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a software operations methodology that enables organizations to create highly reliable and scalable applications. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts. What is DevOps?

DevOps 187

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 187

High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

Testlodge

MAY 26, 2021

Risk is a potential problem that could have negative consequences, or an uncertain event that may or may not occur in the system at any point in the future. Technical Risk: If frequently changing requirements are not handled well, a failure in the system may occur. Overview of Risk-Based Testing. can create a risk.

Testing 105

Testing Software Engineering Best Practices Strategy 105

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

MARCH 17, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 105

Education Engineering Java Software Engineering 105

High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 114

Education Games Engineering Java 114

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 113

Education Games Engineering Java 113

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 108

Education Games Engineering Java 108

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

Allspaw highlights four key challenges: The systems are uniquely opaque, with multiple layers of abstraction hiding underlying complexity, performance variability under normal conditions, and an increasing interdependence between services, including across organisational boundaries. Routing, for example, is non-deterministic.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. Using raw content data (such as Markdown, YAML, JSON files) and templates an SSG engine (such as Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.) A headless CMS using GraphQL.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. The tester can find a bug in the specifications, design, or development phase.

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

CREATE EVENT SESSION [EventSequence] ON SERVER ADD EVENT sqlserver. sql_batch_completed ( ACTION ( package0. event_sequence , sqlserver. client_app_name , sqlserver. session_id )), ADD EVENT sqlserver. sql_batch_starting ( ACTION ( package0. event_sequence , sqlserver. client_app_name , sqlserver. session_id )) ADD TARGET package0. Designer.cs.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Code Servers Cache 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 31, 2017

Scatter/gather capabilities allow more efficient memory to disk transfers reducing redundant memory copies, sorting and other activities applications may require to gain improved I/O performance. The buffers must be the operating system page size (4K.) Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Software Engineering Operating System Database 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

Design 128

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 128

SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Ultimately, tables are stored as a sequence of bytes with some metadata elsewhere in the system to describe what each of those bytes mean, and how they relate to each of the table's various columns. It requires only a few changes to system tables, and a minimal amount of logging. Be Careful with Syntax. Acknowledgements.

Servers 63

Servers Database Testing Efficiency 63

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141