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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. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. My experience is the opposite.

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Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

Dynatrace

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service.

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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. Shown below are rate versus quality examples for a couple of titles from our HDR catalog. We present two sets. The first set (Fig.

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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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Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

Dynatrace

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. They also care about infrastructure: SREs require system visibility and incident management. Laifenfeld used a to-do list app as an example. “I The DevOps people looking end-to-end.

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Connect your software with the right people: Ownership drives effective collaboration

Dynatrace

Especially when new security vulnerabilities are detected, collaboration with the right people—for example, the team responsible for a vulnerable service—is vital to keeping negative impact low and MTTR at a minimum. Despite increasing automation, software development and incident management are human-centered activities.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging. But the transition to SRE maturity is not always easy.