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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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

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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Because of its adaptability, Prometheus has become an essential tool for observability engineering.

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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 bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

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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

MARCH 5, 2024

Since most application releases depend on cloud infrastructure, having good continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and end-to-end observability becomes essential for ensuring highly available systems.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2020

Everything you need to know about performance engineering. As highly distributed apps become more complex, developers need to ensure their systems are as user-friendly, secure, and scalable as possible. You may also like: A Short History of Performance Engineering.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Kubernetes, the de-facto orchestration platform, offers scalability and agility. Prometheus, a powerful open-source monitoring system, emerges as a perfect fit for this role, especially when integrated with Kubernetes. In the dynamic world of cloud-native technologies, monitoring and observability have become indispensable.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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 bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams. SRE focuses on automation.

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DZone

APRIL 22, 2020

Traditionally we use unit tests and integration tests that guarantee a system is production-ready. To better identify system vulnerabilities and improve resilience, Netflix invented Chaos Monkey , which injects various types of faults into the infrastructure and business systems. This is how Chaos Engineering began.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

We are well aware of what is meant by system scalability. System scalability is about maintaining the SLA of the system as the user base continues to grow and as the user activity continues to rise. However, to build highly successful products, this is not the only type of scalability that we should worry about.

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DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A good SRE engineer will tell you your service is never down. A great SRE engineer will tell you that’s not what you should be measuring. In fact, they’ll tell you their job is customer service.

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InfoQ

OCTOBER 4, 2023

During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Yao Yue, a Founder of IOP Systems, presented on performance engineering. Yue discussed in her session the evolving performance engineering in the modern era.

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High Scalability

APRIL 9, 2020

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function. It's free to download, so don't be shy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

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High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

billion : venture investment first half of 2018; 1 billion : Utah voting system per day hack attempts; 67% : did not deploy a serverless app last year; $1.8 Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases. OK, Results?

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Too often, those who already hold power, those who are least able to recognize the flaws in our current systems, are the ones who decide our technological future. They'll love you even more. More quotes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. This awareness is important when the goal is to drive cost-conscious engineering.

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Uber Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Uber Engineering’s Schemaless storage system powers some of the biggest services at Uber, such as Mezzanine. Schemaless is a scalable and highly available datastore on top of MySQL ¹ clusters.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform accelerates cloud operations, helping organizations achieve service-level objectives (SLOs) with automated intelligence and unmatched scalability. Saving your cloud operations and SRE teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Computing System Congestion Management Using Exponential Smoothing Forecasting by James Brady, State of Nevada. – System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it. System Performance Estimation, Evaluation, and Decision (SPEED) by Kingsum Chow, Yingying Wen, Alibaba.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

allspaw : engineer: “Unless you’re familiar with Lamport, Brewer, Fox, Armstrong, Stonebraker, Parker, Shapiro.(and and others) you don’t know distributed systems.” ” also engineer: “I read ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ therefore I know cognitive psychology and decision-making theory.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This means organizations are increasingly using Kubernetes not just for running applications, but also as an operating system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

Dynatrace’s collaboration with Google addresses these needs by providing simple, scalable, and innovative data acquisition for comprehensive analysis and troubleshooting. The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system. These CSI pods provide a unique way of solving a handful of infrastructure problems.

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High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. has hours of system design content. Learn more and sign up.

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High Scalability

MAY 4, 2022

Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. has hours of system design content. Learn more and sign up.

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High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. has hours of system design content. Learn more and sign up.

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Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Cherami is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system we developed at Uber Engineering to transport asynchronous tasks.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Enter AI observability, which uses AI to understand the performance and cost-effectiveness details of various systems in an IT environment. Another key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 is organizations’ growing adoption of platform engineering , which helps accelerate the delivery of software applications.

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