The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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DZone

JUNE 4, 2024

In this article, I'll sum up the essence of what's required for a software engineer to be more effective in their field. Not being familiar with the basics of queuing theory will prevent you from understanding the relations between latency and throughput , high-level capacity estimations, and workload optimization. Queues Are Everywhere!

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Today, speed and DevOps automation are critical to innovating faster, and platform engineering has emerged as an answer to some of the most significant challenges DevOps teams are facing. It needs to be engineered properly as a product or service, and it needs automation, observability, and security in itself.”

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing enables software engineers to model their applications’ business logic as high-level representations in a directed acyclic graph without explicitly defining a physical execution plan. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering. Chaos scenario: Random pods executing worker instances are deleted.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Site reliability engineering first emerged to address cloud computing’s new performance needs. Today, the platform engineer role is gaining speed as the newest byproduct of scaling DevOps in the emerging but complex cloud-native world. Understanding the platform engineer role DevOps is a constantly evolving discipline.

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DZone

JULY 31, 2024

This article sets out to explore some of the essential tools required by organizations in the domain of data engineering to efficiently improve data quality and triage/analyze data for effective business-centric machine learning analytics, reporting, and anomaly detection.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Five of the most common include cluster instability, resource and cost management, security, observability, and stress on engineering teams. Engineering teams are overwhelmed with stuff to do.” The post Enhancing Kubernetes cluster management key to platform engineering success appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering answers this need so organizations can deliver robust, resilient cloud-native applications that can stand up under any conditions. What is chaos engineering? Chaos engineers ask why. As chaos engineers grow confident in their testing, they change more variables and broaden the scope of the disaster.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

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DZone

MAY 31, 2024

In this article, I will discuss: The concept of Deep Work Why it is important in this day and age What are some of the unique challenges that Site Reliability Engineers face that make it hard to do Deep Work in their field?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Planned effort Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) effort and time allocation planning typically fall into two domains: Operations Management (50%) Operations Management includes on-call responsibilities, post-mortem assessments, addressing other interruptions, and buffer time. These practices are commonly known as “ chaos engineering. ”

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DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Most engineering organizations face the dilemma of ensuring the new developer gets the support they need without slowing down the rest of the team too much. During this time, the developer will have many questions (as they should)! However, those questions interrupt other team members who must stop what they’re doing to provide answers.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” What are DevOps engineer tools and platforms.

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DZone

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But chaos engineering stands out for its exceptional capacity to identify weaknesses and proactively fortify systems. The rise of a new discipline known as chaos engineering is a result of the increased complexity combined with the constant demand for reliability and resilience.

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DZone

JANUARY 6, 2024

Meetings are a crucial aspect of software engineering , serving as a collaboration, communication, and decision-making platform. In this article, we will delve deeper into the issues associated with meetings in software engineering and explore the available data.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a systematic and data-driven approach to improving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems. It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Whilst our traditional Dynatrace website predominantly showcases Dynatrace content and product information for visitors, the idea behind the creation of our new Engineering website – engineering.dynatrace.com – was to set up a space to feature the results of our research and innovation efforts and aims to be a site made by engineers for engineers.

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DZone

JANUARY 30, 2024

The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Our audits would detect this and alert the on-call data engineer (DE).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. If so, we invite you to begin the interview process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 30, 2020

Our mission in Studio Engineering is to build a unified, global, and digital studio that powers the effective production of amazing content. link] Why Does Studio Engineering Exist? Post-Production: Help our creative partners collaborate to refine content into their final vision with digital content logistics and orchestration.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2024

In the world of software engineering, where complex systems are the norm, ensuring reliability and resilience is paramount. Enter chaos engineering — a revolutionary approach that intentionally introduces controlled chaos into systems to proactively identify and address potential weaknesses. What Is Chaos Engineering?

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DZone

APRIL 21, 2023

Platform engineering is the discipline of building and maintaining a self-service platform for developers. The goal of platform engineering is to improve developer experience (DX) by standardizing and automating most of the tasks in the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC).

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High Scalability

AUGUST 2, 2021

What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Search engines, and more generally, information retrieval systems, play a central role in almost all of today’s technical stacks. After more than 30 years of evolution since TREC, search engines continue to grow and evolve, leading to new challenges.

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DZone

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the dynamic realm of modern software development and operations, terms such as Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) are frequently used, sometimes interchangeably, often causing confusion among professionals entering or navigating these domains.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become increasingly important to organizations looking to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

As performance engineers, it is our responsibility to learn various tools and technologies. Let us see HTTP Toolkit for Performance Engineers. In this blog post, we are going to deep-dive into the HTTP Toolkit and its features. Based on the issue, you need to leverage the right tool to fix the problems, just like plumbers.

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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2021

We are continuing with our interview series (previously we have interviewed Diego Ojeda – Android Lead at Apiumhub ) and today we have a QA interview with Serhii Zabolennyi – QA Automation engineer at Apiumhub.

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2024

This will help developers and performance engineers to find and fix the performance issues early which can make a big difference overall, especially if all the developers are testing and profiling the code as soon as they write.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

At Dynatrace ’s Perform 2024 conference, Andi Grabner , DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, sat down with Marcio Lena , IT Senior Director of Application Intelligence and SRE at Dell Technologies, to discuss how Dell is empowering developers in the platform engineering era.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This article delves into a specialized approach for anomaly detection that makes extensive use of a rule-based engine. Overview of the System Architecture Data Stream This is the continuous flow of data that the engine reviews.

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DZone

JULY 24, 2024

Chaos engineering is about proactively exposing and addressing system vulnerabilities, greatly enhancing system resilience. ChaosMeta, an open-source chaos engineering platform developed by Ant Group, provides comprehensive support for the stability of AI systems.

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DZone

MAY 23, 2023

One approach to achieving this is through chaos engineering. What Is Chaos Engineering? Chaos engineering is a practice that involves intentionally introducing failures or disruptions to a system to test its resilience and identify weaknesses.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. SRE focuses on automation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on their devices.

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DZone

MARCH 28, 2021

In this series of chaos engineering articles, we have been learning to simulate various performance problems. In this post, let’s discuss how to simulate deadlock. What Is a Deadlock? Deadlocks tend to happen in multi-threaded applications.

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