The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery.

Engineering 217

Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability 217

DZone

MARCH 13, 2024

As software engineers, we are always striving for high performance and efficiency in our code. One powerful way that can help us accurately measure the performance of our code is a process called benchmarking, and we’ll look at how to use BenchmarkDotNet with our C# code.

Benchmarking 141

Benchmarking Tuning Performance Open Source 141

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

DevOps automation eliminates extraneous manual processes, enabling DevOps teams to develop, test, deliver, deploy, and execute other key processes at scale. According to the Dynatrace 2023 DevOps Automation Pulse report, an average of 56% of end-to-end DevOps processes are automated across organizations of all kinds.

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DevOps Artificial Intelligence Government Innovation 191

Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. I was drawn to Tasktop because of its strong impact on the software development industry.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These observations are from a particular type of A/B test that Netflix runs called a software canary or regression-driven experiment. Netflix also performs canary tests — software A/B tests between current and newer software versions. Rationale : This system is part of a semi-automated process for all client deployments.

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Testing Software Software Metrics 239

DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Software engineering team scalability is equally important. Software Engineering Team Scalability. We can say that system scalability is about supporting a linear rate of growth in system resource requirements given that code running inside the system is unchanged.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 30, 2018

Unfortunately there isn’t a perfect formula but some tips could definitely help to alleviate the process or at least know that you are not alone. In the following article I will try to provide you with some tips and tricks when applying and preparing for a job interview as a Software Engineer.

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DZone

JULY 14, 2021

Fei Xu (Software Engineer at PingCAP). TiDB is a Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that can efficiently process analytical queries. However, when large amounts of data are involved, the CPU becomes the bottleneck for processing queries that include JOIN statements and/or aggregation functions.

Analytics 223

Analytics Software Engineering Performance Database 223

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. This process is vital to an IDP’s effectiveness. “It makes them more productive.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Real-time detection for fast remediation.

Engineering 187

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes.

DevOps 191

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 191

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. But according to the 2023 DevOps Automation Pulse , only 56% of end-to-end DevOps processes are automated. Automation is a crucial aspect of achieving DevOps excellence.

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DevOps Benchmarking Azure Innovation 210

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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Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure 279

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For a given rate-quality operating point, the DO process helps allocate bits among the various shots while maximizing an overall objective function. Additionally, the current version has some algorithmic limitations that we are in the process of improving before the official release. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important.

Best Practices 195

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 195

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By helping teams release new software more frequently, DevOps practices are an essential component of digital transformation. DevOps is a widely practiced set of procedures and tools for streamlining the development, release, and updating of software. DevOps orchestration in practice. Automation versus orchestration.

DevOps 215

DevOps Virtualization Innovation Best Practices 215

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics. Customer empathy is key to a fully optimized site reliability engineering practice Software engineering can often be an impersonal discipline.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. The change process itself must be planned and controlled.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2021

If you need to dynamically trace Linux process system calls, you might first consider strace. strace is simple to use and works well for issues such as "Why can't the software run on this machine?" However, if you're running a trace in a production environment, strace is NOT a good choice. The answer is YES.

Systems 166

Systems Performance Software Engineering Performance Testing 166

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. A breakpoint won’t stop your program but will collect local variables, stack trace, process metrics, etc., I think Dynatrace and Rookout together are going to enable this future.”

Development 267

Development DevOps Programming Cloud 267

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year.

DevOps 203

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 203

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Best Practices 227

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 227

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

Engineering 257

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 257

DZone

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Of course, as with any other aspect of the testing process, some challenges can arise, but this is to be expected. Testing your digital platforms as part of a digital experience program is a vital element of ensuring that your customers have a seamless and user-friendly experience as they interact with your digital platforms.

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Testing Software Engineering Strategy Programming 109

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based “It’s quite a big scale,” said an engineer at the financial services group. Ingesting, processing, retaining, and querying logs.

Analytics 192

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 192

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. Another key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 is organizations’ growing adoption of platform engineering , which helps accelerate the delivery of software applications.

Performance 191

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 191

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You apply for multiple roles at the same company and proceed through the interview process with each hiring team separately, despite the fact that there is tremendous overlap in the roles. Interviewing can be a daunting endeavor and how companies, and teams, approach the process varies greatly.

Engineering 199

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 199

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Mobile analytics can help organizations optimize their mobile application performance, earning customer accolades and increasing revenue in the process. After investigating, the software engineering team discovered that it wasn’t leveraging application performance monitoring (APM) tooling data to its full potential.

Mobile 216

Mobile Analytics Best Practices Software Engineering 216

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

But, as Justin Scherer, senior software engineer from Northwestern Mutual found, OpenTelemetry by itself is not a panacea. Based on the W3C open standard Trace Context , OpenTelemetry standardizes telemetry data from multiple sources, so organizations have the capacity to deeply analyze software behavior and performance.

Open Source 201

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 201

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

Engineering 180

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 180

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services. SLOs are a great way to define what software should do.

Open Source 192

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 192

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 152

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

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.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

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. Get started today! .

Performance 246

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 246

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2023

Again, for details about this process, see the topic Example configuration of service-level objective definitions in the Dynatrace documentation. Uptime Objective Performance Objective Weight Mobile service 99% 95% – 200ms 1.25 Web service 99.5% 98% – 150 ms 1 Telephony service 98% 90% – 300 ms 0.75 x 1) + (94 x 0.75) = 290.5

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Mobile Metrics Software Engineering Availability 186