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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The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building services that adhere to software best practices, such as Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), the SOLID principles, and modularization, is crucial to have success at this stage.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

After investigating, the software engineering team discovered that it wasn’t leveraging application performance monitoring (APM) tooling data to its full potential. Additionally, the software engineering team was able to continuously improve its KPIs by effectively using data from Dynatrace.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year. DevOps and DevSecOps practices help organizations release software faster and more frequently, paving the way for digital transformation. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

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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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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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. With topics ranging from best practices to cloud cost management and success stories, the conference will be a valuable resource for understanding observability and getting started.

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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. Solving for SR.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

It addresses the extent to which an organization prioritizes automation efforts, including budgets, ROI models, standardized best practices, and more. Operations automation: The operations section addresses the level of automation organizations use in maintaining and managing existing software.

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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.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The optimization of performance testing services can contribute to achieving sustainable software engineering. What are the best practices to reduce it? Why is the digital carbon footprint getting bigger every day?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

By Astha Singhal , Lakshmi Sudheer , Julia Knecht The Application Security teams at Netflix are responsible for securing the software footprint that we create to run the Netflix product, the Netflix studio, and the business. Our customers are product and engineering teams at Netflix that build these software services and platforms.

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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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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

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Simform

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What comes to your mind first when you hear the word software development? But the truth is - leading software engineers recommend writing code that is easy to understand. Complex commands, coding standards, algorithms, and data structures.

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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.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Most teams approach this like traditional software development but quickly discover it’s a fundamentally different beast. Check out the graph belowsee how excitement for traditional software builds steadily while GenAI starts with a flashy demo and then hits a wall of challenges? Whats worse: Inputs are rarely exactly the same.

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DZone

MARCH 26, 2020

It can also be very easy to write unit tests that are — in theory — units test but are more complex than the underlying code and hence just add to the total software entropy. It is like the test has a negative value.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation. By integrating best practices such as least privilege into an IAM pipeline, we transitioned the security team from being gatekeepers of the cloud into cloud development accelerators. If you missed the talk, check it out here.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Senior DevOps Engineer : Your engineering work will focus on using your deep knowledge of the web stack including firewalls, web applications, caches and data stores ­ to create innovative infrastructure architectures that are resilient, scalable, and blazingly fast. Please apply here.

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Testlodge

MAY 26, 2021

A risk analyst or an experienced software engineer will be in the best position to carry out this activity. There are no predefined criteria for risk assessment, so we have to rely on the judgment of a risk analyst or an experienced software engineer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team.

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics. How will you handle it?"

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The key insight this led to is that ML models are software , derived from data. ML learning systems combine the characteristics of software, e.g. the need for CI/CD pipelines, and of data, e.g. the need to track lineage. Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Industries of survey respondents. Organization size of survey respondents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. I now find myself working as a Designer Advocate at Figma. We’re All Faking It. No one really knows what they are doing. Alright, enough doom and gloom.

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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 ). Our current front-end stack is React served with Next.js It wasn’t enough. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Pat, who is currently a software engineer at Google, is the definition of humble. If you could wave a magic wand, what is the one performance best practice you'd apply that would have the most impact on user experience? This month, we celebrate all that Pat has done and continues to do for web performance.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 18, 2018

It is a best practice keep the setting above 128. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. On systems with limited memory the starting count for x64 is divided by 2, lowering the default max workers target (~2MB per worker.). select * from sys.dm_os_sys_info outputs the active max worker setting value.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2015

IT generally organizes around technical roles: we have infrastructure people, database people, helpdesk people, software development people, and so forth. But in strategic software development, the business domain influences technical implementation, so IT needs tighter alignment with the business.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The systems follow modern software engineering best practices and offer an organized way to build applications. Developers can implement best practices to enhance security further. Also, PHP works well with web development technologies like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

Today's LISA attracts attendees working on all sizes of production systems, and its attendees include sysadmins, systems engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers, software engineers, IT managers, security engineers, network administrators, researchers, students, and more.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

Today's LISA attracts attendees working on all sizes of production systems, and its attendees include sysadmins, systems engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers, software engineers, IT managers, security engineers, network administrators, researchers, students, and more.

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