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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

If you want to practice, focus on medium-difficulty real-world problems you might encounter in a software engineering role. Your work centers around raising levels of abstraction to improve development at scale and creating engineering efficiencies. Be sure to have questions prepared to ask the interviewers.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Hear directly from Samuel Setegne , Dhevi Rajendran , Kevin Wylie , and Pallavi Phadnis in our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series. Experimentation and causal inference data scientists who work directly with Netflix business units develop deep domain understanding and intuition about the business areas where they work.

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TPDP Episode #8: Asynchronous and Event-Based Programming with RxJS

The Polyglot Developer

When it comes to modern JavaScript development, there are a few different ways to handle asynchronous events or data. In this episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker Ben Lesh and I discuss RxJS and where it fits in modern JavaScript development, whether it be server-side or front-end.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP!

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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