The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You study and practice coding interview problems for hours/days/weeks/months, only to be asked to merge two sorted lists. For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team. These questions reflect actual challenges that our teams face.

Engineering 211

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 211

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

Design 110

Design Development Programming Website 110

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

How to assess an environment’s security posture, risk and threat profile, and possible attack vectors, where perhaps you didn’t code the application or build the infrastructure, and where new code is deployed frequently, and the infrastructure is constantly changing? And this poses a significant risk. Showing a list of key processes.

Government 239

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 239

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. Data scientists want to retain their freedom to use arbitrary, idiomatic Python code to express their business logic?—?like The steps can be arbitrary Python code. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

Open Source 135

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 135

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Using high-fidelity metrics, logs, code-level tracing, and a dynamic topology map of your applications, Davis can identify the precise root cause and prioritize its business impact.

Azure 201

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 201

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Change starts by thoroughly evaluating whether the current architecture, tools, and processes for configuration, infrastructure, code delivery pipelines, testing, and monitoring enable improved customer experience faster and with high quality or not. Constantly reinventing wheels with a “Not Invented Here” bias.

Strategy 190

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring 190

Strategic Tech

JUNE 21, 2020

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. Visualising Progress The theme of our workshop was to teach Strategic Domain-Driven Design using the Bounded Context Canvas as a visual model to aid learning. Digital tools like Miro allows us to design workshops as interactive journeys.

Design 98

Design Logistics Transportation Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In the kernel, you’ll often see capability checks spread throughout the code, which looks something like this: [link] Notice this function doesn’t check if the user is root, but if the task has the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability before allowing it to execute. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. User Namespaces.

Media 297

Media Metrics Systems Processing 297

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

In other words, where the application code resides. However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. That said, the guiding thread, predominantly under the client’s control, remains the backend perspective.

Efficiency 237

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we show how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. We will use xMatters’ Flow Designer to create toolchains that automate remediation, and Dynatrace’ keptn to automate continuous operations. Flow Designer rolls back through keptn.

Systems 27

Systems Traffic DevOps Database 27

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. To support this growth, we’ve revisited Pushy’s past assumptions and design decisions with an eye towards both Pushy’s future role and future stability. This initial functionality was built out for FireTVs and was expanded from there.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 233

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Devin Harold. Large preview ).

Code 139

Code Design Education Government 139

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You can always ask a question live , you can share your screen and get immediate feedback, and you can work on group exercises with people around the world. Live discussions and interactive exercises are at the very heart of every workshop, with group work, homework, reviews and live interaction with people around the world.

Design 89

Design Programming Testing Systems 89

Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS. and exercise best CSS practices. To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. I have had a great experience using Next.js

Website 143

Website Design Best Practices Code 143

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Now go rewrite all your code… we’ll wait…are you done yet? the mobile app) can be built using modern, cloud-based technology while still leveraging the tried-and-true code in the various legacy systems. The NServiceBus Messaging Bridge The NServiceBus Messaging Bridge was designed specifically for these scenarios.

Cloud 126

Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you peek under the hood of an ML-powered application, these days you will often find a repository of Python code. Let’s start by considering the job of a non-ML software engineer: writing traditional software deals with well-defined, narrowly-scoped inputs, which the engineer can exhaustively and cleanly model in the code.

DevOps 140

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 140

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

After working on a coding project for a good couple of hours, many developers like myself tend to hit a wall. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Physical Exercise. A Simple But Effective Mental Health Routine For Programmers. Dave Oscar.

Programming 106

Programming Energy Code Processing 106

Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The tester established a baseline by selecting the most critical, common, or obvious path through the code selection. Steps to Performing Basis Path Testing The first step is to create a control flow graph for a specified code section. The second step is to select a baseline path through the code.

Testing 75

Testing Software Software C++ 75

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). All in, OmegaGen is about 8Kloc of Java code, making use of the Soot analysis framework. Characterising partial failures.

Systems 98

Systems Software Software Programming 98

Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

In my records for the entire day, I put one color code for my work hours and will have a separate diagram specifically to break up my work hours. You can see that in the workday I’ve marked the dark blue as ‘getting tasks done’, which represented product design for my case. Exercise/outdoors. Design and development.

Games 129

Games Availability Software Software 129

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Millions of lines of code comprise these apps, and they include hundreds of interconnected digital services and open-source solutions , and run in containerized environments hosted across multiple cloud services.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 148

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. Developers and designers who are skilled in building with performance in mind would likely be in higher demand. As a developer/designer, do you find that this is a good punishment for those who don’t follow best practices? Wrapping up and looking forward.

Google 86

Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. In his book Voices in the Code , James G. The design of an AI that will not destroy us may be the very thing that saves us in the end. .” Profit should be an instrumental goal, not a goal in and of itself. But they can’t be developed solely by the tech companies themselves.

Government 100

Government Best Practices Energy Internet 100

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). Run-time errors should be reported using exceptions, error codes, or similar.

C++ 80

C++ Programming Code Testing 80

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

If a PostgreSQL user wants to change these values, they need to recompile the PostgreSQL from the source code. This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. Changing these values at compile time is not intended for common use.

Database 109

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 109

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. " The eventual Blink fork was precipitated by an insurmountable difficulty in doing precisely what Apple suggested to Congress: contributing code upstream to WebKit to enable new features. It's worth assessing these claims from most easily falsified to most contested.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times. Basically, Google offers a foundational code package called a module that you can then remake to suit your needs. This PageSpeed service offers two types of package for web servers: Apache module and Nginx module.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Thank you to the following for their feedback on drafts of this material: Howard Hinnant (lead designer and author of move semantics), Jens Maurer, Arthur O’Dwyer, Geoffrey Romer, Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrew Sutton, Ville Voutilainen, Jonathan Wakely. Yes, in my view it does make it a buggy class that shouldn’t pass code review.

C++ 98

C++ Testing Design Strategy 98

Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

On the cppfront wiki, see the Design Note “operator=, this & that” for details. Briefly summarizing here: The only special function every type must have is the destructor. If you don’t write it by hand, a public nonvirtual destructor is generated by default.

C++ 97

C++ Virtualization Lambda Code 97

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Those courses include topics like design thinking, communication, entrepreneurship, and project management, in addition to courses on Microsoft Word and Excel. The Pearson correlation is 0.8, B2B users complete courses in management and “soft skills” at a much higher rate than B2C users.

Education 80

Education Azure AWS Java 80

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

It's easy to assume that we're hiring competent developers who write high quality code, and most buyers don't know what to look for or how to look for technical quality. We can invest in people to become mobile solution developers who can write client and server code. Stronger hand-offs will slow down coding.

Mobile 49

Mobile Code Java Software 49

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

Although completing a story may require contribution from people in different roles - QA analyst and developer and experience designer, for example - each person is still responsible for the entire outcome of the story. An Agile story is an expression of end-to-end business need. Good managers know how to work the problem and solution space.

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. I found a lot of value in the Coverage panel in DevTools because it will show just how much code is being used after everything’s downloaded.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels. Gathering timestapms of changes made to application code during the outage. A coded timelime was created dividing activities into three main types: Coordination activities. Capturing logs af any alerts that triggered during the outage.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

This allows application code to introspect on the dynamic behavior of each data source, maintain synthetic metrics which aid the analysis, and create alerts when conditions require. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. Debugging with a Mock Environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52