The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026. Open source logs and metrics take precedence in the monitoring process.

Engineering 279

Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 279

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. Software Development Layers. Software Architecture.

DevOps 137

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 137

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. AWS Lambda makes it easy to design, run, and maintain application systems without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Here are a few of the most popular. Amazon EC2. Amazon Fargate.

Best Practices 217

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 217

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. Wednesday?—?December

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. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel. This meant there was no negative impact on our end-users, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), or Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

AWS 195

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 195

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases. We use Netflix open source project Conductor as a library to manage the workflow state machine in Maestro.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

A natural tendency for software engineers is to gravitate towards the most technically interesting challenges. Developers who follow a Domain-Driven Design approach, however, have a counter-balance. we should consider buying SaaS or using open source instead of building Generic Domains.

Open Source 87

Open Source Games Innovation Strategy 87

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Communities in other fields have made a substantial effort towards “democratization,” where tools are not just made open source, but also accessible to everyone. For example, the existence and support of open-source frameworks such as LLVM or Tensorflow/Pytorch are an attractive element to many newcomers.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Sergey is an open source developer, tireless educator on performance topics, and author of many web performance-related tools, including ShowSlow , SVN Assets , drop-in.htaccess and more.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s easy to make experimental design mistakes that invalidate your online controlled experiments. PlanAlyzer acts a bit like a linter for online experiment designs, where those designs are specified in the PlanOut language. Experimental design with PlanOut. What can go wrong in experiment design?

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering?

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Browsers are big, big business.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Another data point from Miller’s presentation: in 2018 57-70% of the average software project comprises open source components, and that fraction is rising fast. “ We largely glue together open source components now (we didn’t do this as much, not even like 3 years ago).” Yep, you read that right.

Open Source 52

Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Mike on Twitter.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 24, 2017

Many of you have used WinDbg , Visual Studio or other other debugging utilities but none of these are designed for PE and ELF in the same process space. The ability to do source level debugging and use other features of such debugging utilities is critical to productivity. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Open Source Software Engineering Processing 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cost is one of the key reasons why most government organisations, mid to large sized business, and publisher prefer open source CMS options such as WordPress and Drupal. In addition, open source CMS solutions also struggle with blotted plugin ecosystem.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

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. In addition, another lesson here is that once we accept model checking is necessary, we need to design systems that are amenable to model checking.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 29, 2017

Over the last couple of years the open source activities at Microsoft have accelerated all around me. Recently I blogged about the design of of the debugger bridge and the use of LLDB. Commit rL293714: Open ELF core dumps with more than 64K sections. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Programming Media Open Source 40