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. like they would do in a Jupyter notebook.

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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 208

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O'Reilly

APRIL 8, 2025

But the distinction between senior and junior software developers is built into our jobs and job titles. Entry-level developers can do some basic programming, but their knowledge isnt necessarily deep or broad. That new role requires developing a new set of skills. It almost sounds pejorative, doesnt it? What about algorithms?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. You can read more about this in our previous posts here: part 1 , part 2. It was a Node.js

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases. We also quickly check for system events and see there were no scheduled code deploys in the last week. PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

If you AIAWs want to make the most of AI, you’d do well to borrow some hard-learned lessons from the software development tech boom. We’ve seen this movie before Earlier in my career I worked as a software developer. Managing the new risks required everyone to exercise new discipline. We know Python.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2025

Tech services firms are instead applying AI to their own offerings to do things like accelerate the reverse-engineering of existing code and expedite forward engineering of new solutions. Those firms are developing proprietary products to do this (e.g., That statement doesnt apply just to code.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Improving Testing and Fuzz Development with Coverage Analysis. This time we’ll take a look at how to write better tests in the form of harness programs (also known as fuzz drivers, programs are written to exercise specific parts of the code) that we will use for fuzz testing.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Let’s assume your team has just pushed new code and it passed pre-deployment testing. But wait, there is more: Davis doesn’t just tell what exactly happened; it also understands how everything is connected—the relationships and interdependencies between each layer, component, and bit of code in your application environment.

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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). Advent of Code. If you prefer a puzzle over an article, take a look at Advent of Code. Code Security Advent Calendar. Iris Lješnjanin. 2021-12-02T14:00:43+00:00.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Let’s look at an example. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

Consequently, by understanding the intricacies involved, this enables us to swiftly confirm or refute the functional/business case of the business teams involved, including project managers, top management, developers, and tech leads. Path 2 (easier): I’m familiar with my application and the development team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A design system, such as the one we developed for the Netflix Studio, can help alleviate most of these headaches. We wanted a way to ensure that we can have a consistent user experience while also sharing as much code as possible. To meet this challenge, developers decided to spin up a parallel library that sits right next to Hawkins.

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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. like they would do in a Jupyter notebook.

Open Source 135

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 30, 2025

Were addressing UB methodically, starting with addressing the common high-value cases that will do the most to harden our code: uninitialized variables, out-of-bounds access, pointer misuse, and the key UB cases that adversaries need to implement remote code execution. Spoiler: All constexpr / consteval compile-time code is UB-free.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

History & motivation There were two main motivating use cases that drove Pushy’s initial development and usage. Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. Recent developments With this stable foundation and all of these connections, what can we now do with them?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

These vulnerabilities arise due to the complexity of interactions between namespaces, a large number of historical decisions during kernel development, and leaky abstractions like the proc filesystem in Linux. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. User Namespaces Fortunately, Linux has a solution?—?User User Namespaces.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

More than half of CIOs confirmed that they often make tradeoffs among code quality, security, and reliability to meet the need for rapid software delivery. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. Figuring out what kinds of problems are amenable to automation through code. Pretty simple. That’s sort of true.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. The art of asking is everything.

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Particular Software

MARCH 28, 2022

We’ve focused on supercharging your ability to develop NServiceBus sagas in our latest round of releases. As a result, you’re going to feel like you’ve got your own “ heads-up display ” when developing sagas. You can create a class that is a lousy saga but is still perfectly valid C# code. You focus on your business logic.

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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. The Simple Mental Health Routine For Developers. For the most part, coding can be quite intimidating and disappointing for a beginner or even a well-versed developer. Dave Oscar. 2021-10-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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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. If you peek under the hood of an ML-powered application, these days you will often find a repository of Python code. Why: Data Makes It Different.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 29, 2024

non-UFCS members-only call syntax Allow x: const = init; and x: * = init; (const and pointer deduction without explicit _ placeholder) Allow concatenated string literals Faster compile time when doing heavy reflection and code generation Added -quiet and -cwd Cppfront 0.7.2 (Jul Jul 10, 2024), new things include: Added.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We already see hints of that on GitHub: in February 2023, GitHub said that 46% of all the code checked in was written by Copilot. At some point in the near future, new models will be trained on code that they have written. I expected it to stay close to 1, and the experiment would serve no purpose other than exercising my laptop’s fan.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

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. Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment.

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Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Continuing this trajectory into the future improvements in the development of our software products will require many decisions. Data-informed decision-making is key to delivering products that users love and also key to making the difficult choices on where to invest precious development resources and funds.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war,” according to a statement signed by more than 350 business and technical leaders, including the developers of today’s most important AI platforms. Governance is not a “once and done” exercise. In his book Voices in the Code , James G.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Application monitoring.

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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.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. Development is fast and straightforward using standard object-oriented techniques, and the test/debug cycle is kept short by making use of a mock environment running on the developer’s workstation. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. Development is fast and straightforward using standard object-oriented techniques, and the test/debug cycle is kept short by making use of a mock environment running on the developer’s workstation. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify.

Cloud 52

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

This approach is limited by what requestors can observe externally… To expose partial failures, a detector needs to exercise specific code regions with carefully-chosen payloads. Developers can also explicitly annotate an operation as @vulnerable. Developers can provide their own validator functions if desired.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

From failure injection testing to regularly exercising our region evacuation abilities, Netflix engineers invest a lot in ensuring the services that comprise Netflix are robust and reliable. Additionally, having a broad view of the system allows us to spot systematic risks as they develop.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In October there will be an abundance of sessions, events, and coding activities focused on game and mobile app development. Limited to twenty participants, these full-day bootcamps include hands-on lab exercises using a live environment with the AWS console. What’s Happening at the AWS Loft. AWS Technical Bootcamps.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

When a person clicked “submit,” the website would pass that form data through some backend code to process it—thereby sending an e-mail, creating an order, or storing a record in a database. That code was too trusting, though. Red-team exercises can uncover weaknesses in the system while it’s still under development.

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