The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. By design, Metaflow is a deceptively simple Python library: Data scientists can structure their workflow as a Directed Acyclic Graph of steps, as depicted above.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. By design, Metaflow is a deceptively simple Python library: Data scientists can structure their workflow as a Directed Acyclic Graph of steps, as depicted above.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. Safeguards.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. and used to taking small incremental steps, fail to appreciate the need for some degree of up-front design. (Of

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

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