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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

You apply for multiple roles at the same company and proceed through the interview process with each hiring team separately, despite the fact that there is tremendous overlap in the roles. Interviewing can be a daunting endeavor and how companies, and teams, approach the process varies greatly.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. Functional Testing Functional testing was the most straightforward of them all: a set of tests alongside each path exercised it against the old and new endpoints.

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Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance

The Netflix TechBlog

Subsequent posts will go into more details on experimentation across Netflix, how Netflix has invested in infrastructure to support and scale experimentation, and the importance of the culture of experimentation within Netflix. This process generally starts by fixing the acceptable false positive rate.

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A Day in the Life of… a Software Training Specialist

Tasktop

I Also like to spend a little bit of time stretching and doing light exercises, reading or playing with my daughter before I dive into some work. I enjoy the process of distilling information from various sources and putting it into a format that our trainees can easily digest and comprehend.

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Fallacy #5: Topology doesn't change

Particular Software

I once had a client who started out with a very noncomplex server infrastructure. In an era before virtualized infrastructure made allocating additional server resources much easier, Public102 became somewhat of a "junk drawer" server. When finally we had all the processes migrated, we celebrated as we decommissioned Public102.

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Legacy Modernization

The Agile Manager

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

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DevSecOps: Recent experiences in field of Federal & Government

Dynatrace

This is especially true when we consider the explosive growth of cloud and container environments, where containers are orchestrated and infrastructure is software defined, meaning even the simplest of environments move at speeds beyond manual control, and beyond the speed of legacy Security practices. And this poses a significant risk.