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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below. API Design. Problem Statement. Architecture. Data Models.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi, what’s your journey to data engineering at Netflix?

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

To achieve this goal, the Encoding Technologies team made the following design decisions about AV1 encoding recipes: We always encode at the highest available source resolution and frame rate. To evaluate decoder capabilities on these devices, the Encoding Technologies team crafted a set of special certification streams.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

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. The graphic below (Fig. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

AWS provides a suite of technologies and serverless tools for running modern applications in the cloud. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Serverless technologies can reduce management complexity. AWS: A service for everything. Amazon EC2.

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The state of site reliability engineering: SRE challenges and best practices in 2023

Dynatrace

At times, engineering teams can become preoccupied with the minutiae of technological endeavors and lose sight of overall business goals. Customer empathy is key to a fully optimized site reliability engineering practice Software engineering can often be an impersonal discipline.