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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. To validate handling traffic spikes caused by regional evacuations, we utilized Netflix’s region evacuation exercises which are scheduled regularly. Keep an eye out for updates on this.

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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Per HashiCorp, this codification allows infrastructure changes to be automated while keeping the definition human readable. It has now become a parallel exercise in the same CLI.

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How ShiftLeft Uses PostgreSQL Extension TimescaleDB

High Scalability

This article is written by Preetam Jinka , Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. This post describes the requirements that we have to work with, how we use TimescaleDB to store and retrieve time series data, and the tooling we’ve developed to manage our infrastructure. Originially published as Time Series at ShiftLeft.

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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team. We recommend against interview coding practice puzzle-type exercises, as we don’t ask those types of questions. The problems you are asked to solve are related to the work of the team.

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Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

Subsequent posts will go into more details on experimentation across Netflix, how Netflix has invested in infrastructure to support and scale experimentation, and the importance of the culture of experimentation within Netflix. In this post, we’ll do the same for false negatives and the related concept of statistical power.

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Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance

The Netflix TechBlog

Subsequent posts will go into more details on experimentation across Netflix, how Netflix has invested in infrastructure to support and scale experimentation, and the importance of the culture of experimentation within Netflix. To build intuition, let’s run through a thought exercise. First, we’ll assume the coin is fair?—?this

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. Functional Testing Functional testing was the most straightforward of them all: a set of tests alongside each path exercised it against the old and new endpoints.

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