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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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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. Now that I have 3 kids, I’ve been limited to the gym but it’s a great way to get exercise and keep my mind sharp. . We have a lot of hills in our area so I can really get a good workout.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability. It doesn’t need to be a choice of one over the other.

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Automating chaos experiments in production

The Morning Paper

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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Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking

The Morning Paper

Testing and grading their solutions is another! Although we added tests to catch specific issues as we learned of them, we found it difficult to keep up with the diversity of possible student errors. Testing and model checking. It’s hard to exhaustively test a distributed system with traditional testing techniques.

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What Am I Working On (RDORR): SQL Server On Linux

SQL Server According to Bob

Before joining Microsoft in 1994 I worked at State Farm Insurance and spent several years in a testing group and later joined a team developing applications against SQL Server for OS/2. We are a bit wiser (you could take that as older) now and we don’t wait until 5 o’clock but we still try everything we can think of to exercise the code.

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