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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. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. This is natural, yet this is also a big problem.

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Evolution of ML Fact Store

The Netflix TechBlog

We built Axion primarily to remove any training-serving skew and make offline experimentation faster. We make sure there is no training/serving skew by using the same data and the code for online and offline feature generation. Our machine learning models train on several weeks of data. What’s our end goal?

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Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

Strategic Tech

external consultants or training) Preference for waiting for the problems to arise (indicating the need for an AMET) or forming an AMET early to prevent issues arising Confidence level that modernization will actually happen (sometimes it is just too unclear and lacking priority) How quickly do you want/need to modernize?

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Cloudy with a high chance of DBMS: a 10-year prediction for enterprise-grade ML

The Morning Paper

Enterprises in every industry are developing strategies for digitally transforming their businesses at every level. Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context. And there’s going to be a lot of them!

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Managing Energy, Prioritizing Health: The Tasktop Recharge Days Initiative

Tasktop

Tomek Zarna, Solution Engineer in Customer Success, found a novel way to ensure that he had a quiet afternoon… All smiles for Rob Elves, VP of Product Strategy, and his family as they hit the lake. Steve Mark, Senior Customer Success Engineer, took the opportunity to make his neighbors green with envy with his fine lawn crafting.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

Whether in analyzing A/B tests, optimizing studio production, training algorithms, investing in content acquisition, detecting security breaches, or optimizing payments, well structured and accurate data is foundational. Acknowledgements Thanks to our Product Manager Ashim Pokharel for driving the strategy and requirements.