The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Platform engineering creates and manages a shared infrastructure and set of tools, such as internal developer platforms (IDPs) , to enable software developers to build, deploy, and operate applications more efficiently. “It makes them more productive. and reduces the complexity of things such as reading a new app or service.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5 Dynatrace fully embraces OpenTelemetry. years ago.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026. Open source logs and metrics take precedence in the monitoring process.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

But, as Justin Scherer, senior software engineer from Northwestern Mutual found, OpenTelemetry by itself is not a panacea. OpenTelemetry is an open source framework that provides agents, APIs, and SDKs that automatically instrument, generate, and gather telemetry data. We believe in open source,” Scherer says. “We

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. How open-source packages have changed the game.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle. Check out the following use cases to learn how to drive innovation from development to production efficiently and securely with platform engineering observability. Real-time detection for fast remediation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. While software decoders enable AV1 playback for more powerful devices, a majority of Netflix members enjoy their favorite shows on TVs.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Zero day refers to security vulnerabilities that are discovered in software when teams had “zero days” to work on an update or a patch to remediate the issue and, hence, are already at risk. If a malicious attacker can identify a key software vulnerability, they can exploit the vulnerability, allowing them to gain access to your systems.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Try it today using Keptn .

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

To gain insight into these problems, software engineers typically deploy application instrumentation frameworks that provide insight into applications and code. As a result, various application performance and security problems can go unnoticed absent sufficient monitoring. AWS monitoring best practices.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 31, 0001

Nick Desaulniers is a software engineer at Google working on compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang (and LLVM). Nick also hacked on open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Emscripten, and Rust at Mozilla. Nick also hacked on open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Emscripten, and Rust at Mozilla.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Developers can stay up to date and improve their skills with the help of many community-made tools, like lessons, groups, and open-source projects, thus building a successful PHP Development Company in India. The systems follow modern software engineering best practices and offer an organized way to build applications.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Software reliability and resiliency don’t just happen by simply moving your software to a modern stack, or by moving your workloads to the cloud. And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. Local-first software ideals. It should be fast.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The first was that there were too many security things that each software team needed to think about?—?things Our gateways are powered by our flagship open-source technology Zuul. Julia & Patrick (Netflix Application Security): In deciding how to address this, we focused on two observations.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2019

Our survey results indicate that their approaches to software development exhibit the following distinctive practices: Innovators deploy more frequently to production . Break down software into smaller chunks. Microservices are often the best approach to breaking down software. The risk is smaller, too. A closing note.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

How we spend our time and apply our resources when developing software systems is possibly the most fundamental and difficult challenge. A natural tendency for software engineers is to gravitate towards the most technically interesting challenges. An example of a commoditised core is a search engine.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Communities in other fields have made a substantial effort towards “democratization,” where tools are not just made open source, but also accessible to everyone. For example, the existence and support of open-source frameworks such as LLVM or Tensorflow/Pytorch are an attractive element to many newcomers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases. We use Netflix open source project Conductor as a library to manage the workflow state machine in Maestro.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Make Your Organisation Irresistible to Software Engineers The easiest and cheapest way to hire good engineers is to let them come to you. Hiring is so hard?—?finding to be an elite tech company?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation.

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Percona

JANUARY 3, 2019

Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, January, 4th, at 8:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). PostgreSQL is one of the leading open-source databases. Register Now.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Sergey is an open source developer, tireless educator on performance topics, and author of many web performance-related tools, including ShowSlow , SVN Assets , drop-in.htaccess and more.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. Another data point from Miller’s presentation: in 2018 57-70% of the average software project comprises open source components, and that fraction is rising fast.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Warehouse engineering squad - managing software services related inventory, stocktake, dispatch, allocation, transfer, robotics, etc. Customer experience engineering squad - focus on end-to-end customer life-cycle, marketing, targeting, personalisation, loyalty, etc. You want to move fast. How is that even possible?

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

The latest consolidated financials (PDF) are from 2020 and show that, without marketing expenses, Mozilla spends between $380 and $430 million US per year on software development. Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. Browsers are big, big business.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

PlanOut is a open source framework for online field experiments, developed by and extensively used at Facebook. We have spoken with data scientists and software engineers at several firms that use PlanOut, and they have stated that the mapping from experiments to samples was what drew them to the PlanOut framework.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ). Large preview ). Here’s an example of a BigQuery table schema that we create: One of our BigQuery schemas.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

In addition, traditional CMS solutions lack integration with modern software stack, cloud services, and software delivery pipelines. Cost is one of the key reasons why most government organisations, mid to large sized business, and publisher prefer open source CMS options such as WordPress and Drupal.

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