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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. Investing in design should be rewarded.

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Our First Netflix Data Engineering Summit

The Netflix TechBlog

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community!

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. It makes business sense to hire cheap programmers and put in place a standard process. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging.

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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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The state of site reliability engineering: SRE challenges and best practices in 2023

Dynatrace

For example, how much does a reduction in MTTR impact revenue? These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics. For example, generative AI has the potential to provide more intuitive methods of querying data.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. Firstly, the synchronous process which is responsible for uploading image content on file storage, persisting the media metadata in graph data-storage, returning the confirmation message to the user and triggering the process to update the user activity.

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