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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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Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking

The Morning Paper

During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course. So DSLabs also uses model checking.

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MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

O'Reilly

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Metaflow removes this cognitive overhead.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Metaflow removes this cognitive overhead.