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Hawkins: Diving into the Reasoning Behind our Design System

The Netflix TechBlog

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This is particularly important for complex APIs that have many high cardinality inputs.

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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end). I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Important note.

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Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Build automated self-healing systems with xMatters and Dynatrace (Part 3 of 3)

Dynatrace

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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What they don't tell you about migrating a message-based system to the cloud

Particular Software

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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Evolving Container Security With Linux User Namespaces

The Netflix TechBlog

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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