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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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The Art of Working from Home with Kids

Tasktop

Not only do they have their day-to-day jobs and lives to contend with, they must also entertain their children 24/7, support their studies, keep them fit and healthy, and much more I’m sure. Kavitha said, “Nothing beats cheap entertainment, especially with some fine motor skills practice and a built-in kitchen science lesson!”.

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! For example, XP partners closely with engineering teams on feature flagging and experience delivery. In success, these efforts provide a seamless experience for Netflix developers that fully integrates experimentation into the software development lifecycle.

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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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