The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. The steps can be arbitrary Python code.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

And conversely, if you need software with that kind of accuracy (for example, a billing application), you shouldn’t be using AI. We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference , New York, February 23-26. Now, it looks like that’s just a start.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. A clear warning sign.

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Architecture Strategy Design Software Architecture 64

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

. • More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). For this audience, SRE’s future is brighter than AI’s, however. Respondent Demographics.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering?

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

cdemi

DECEMBER 16, 2017

According to this report, the primary cause of this failure was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units. An erroneous trajectory was computed using this incorrect data.

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Software Software Programming Software Engineering 73

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A Software Example Consider the example of a marketplace for financial products. That things can be grouped on shared characteristics (e.g. chocolate) or how they are used together (e.g. with ice cream). You’ll see this fundamental modelling choice at almost every layer in a system. And there is no single best practice.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability. It doesn’t need to be a choice of one over the other.

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Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

we can’t wait hours for liveness processing if, for example, Title Operations adds a rating to a movie that needs to go live imminently. So for example, if the translated synopsis system goes down, we can still bring a movie on-site in a region if it was held back for, and then receives, the correct subtitles.

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Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Check out Gojko Adzic’s talk People That Make Computers Go Crazy for many other real examples. The healthcare example used in this article is based on a discussion I recently had with Kacper Gunia based on the needs of a real client. It’s not a fake example and it is typical of the challenges we face when working with our clients.

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