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Re-Architecting the Video Gatekeeper

The Netflix TechBlog

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. When interviewing software engineers, I always provide at-home coding tests which focus on design.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

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. Check out Dynatrace’s Load testing tool integration.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. Get started at metaflow.org. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. Get started at metaflow.org. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

Live online training, videos, books, certification prep, and more, from O’Reilly and our partner publishers. More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. For this audience, SRE’s future is brighter than AI’s, however. Respondent Demographics.

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