Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

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. In our case that includes the login to our SaaS tenants and exploring captured data. Let me start with the end-user impact.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Store the data in an optimized, highly distributed datastore. Additionally, some collectors will instead poll our kafka queue for impressions data. This data is processed from a real-time impressions stream into a Kafka queue, which our title health system regularly polls. Track real-time title impressions from the NetflixUI.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. So how can organizations ensure data quality, reliability, and freshness for AI-driven answers and insights? And how can they take advantage of AI without incurring skyrocketing costs to store, manage, and query data?

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a simple declarative programming language utilized by various technology and business professionals to extract and transform data. Visualization & Reporting: Can the tool generate reports or visual representations like ER diagrams, data charts, or query execution plans?

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

When we talk about conversational AI, were referring to systems designed to have a conversation, orchestrate workflows, and make decisions in real time. By predefined, tested workflows, we mean creating workflows during the design phase, using AI to assist with ideas and patterns. What Does Structured Automation Look Like in Practice?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

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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. Why: Data Makes It Different. All ML projects are software projects. The new category is often called MLOps.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran 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.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Jeffrey Wong , Colin McFarland Every Netflix data scientist, whether their background is from biology, psychology, physics, economics, math, statistics, or biostatistics, has made meaningful contributions to the way Netflix analyzes causal effects. We also optimize for memory and data alignment.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

Build an umbrella for Development and Operations In modern software engineering, the discipline of platform engineering delivers DevSecOps practices to developers to bridge the gaps between development, security, and operations and enhance the developer experience. However, other data formats, like logs, can also be employed.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview 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. For example?—?clinical

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. What is AWS observability? And why it matters. Amazon Fargate.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. Data scientists at Netflix relish our culture that empowers them to work autonomously and use their judgment to solve problems independently. How could we improve the quality of life for data scientists?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To achieve this goal, the Encoding Technologies team made the following design decisions about AV1 encoding recipes: We always encode at the highest available source resolution and frame rate. The Media Cloud Engineering team for accommodating the computing resources for the AV1 rollout. Some titles (e.g.,

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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. Open source logs and metrics take precedence in the monitoring process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. Krasula, A.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments. Lack of collaboration leads to siloed observability data and leaves teams with little information to work from when attempting to deliver value.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Wednesday?—?December

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

ML algorithms can be only as good as the data that we provide to it. This post will focus on the large volume of high-quality data stored in Axion?—?our We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Metaflow GUI allows data scientists to monitor their workflows in real-time, track experiments, and see detailed logs and results for every executed task. link] Metaflow is a full-stack framework for data science that we started developing at Netflix over four years ago and which we open-sourced in 2019.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

– Robert Trueman, Head of Software Engineering at CDL. This enables you to slice and dice monitoring data based on various attributes so that you can isolate certain flows down to individual requests for even further analysis. high-fidelity data,?which and other data sources?to to access this data and?to

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Traditional versus GenAI software: Excitement builds steadilyor crashes after the demo. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. This creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional software development approaches simply weren’t designed to handle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The interview panel consists of two or three engineers, a hiring manager and a recruiter. The engineers assess your technical skills by asking you to solve various design and coding problems. The interview panel comprises an engineering director, a partner engineer or manager, and another engineering leader.

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High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

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High Scalability

APRIL 10, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 8, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. InMemory.Net provides a Dot Net native in memory database for analysing large amounts of data. Scalyr is a lightning-fast log management and operational data platform.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

consumers subscribe to data and are updated to the latest versions when they are published. Each version of the dataset is immutable and represents a complete view of the data?—?there there is no dependency on previous versions of data. This post is a high level overview of the design and architecture of Gutenberg.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design. But in Software 2.0 In the Software 1.0

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High Scalability

MAY 14, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Join Etleap , an Amazon Redshift ETL tool to learn the latest trends in designing a modern analytics infrastructure. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

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High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer!

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High Scalability

JUNE 19, 2018

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. InMemory.Net provides a Dot Net native in memory database for analysing large amounts of data. Scalyr is a lightning-fast log management and operational data platform.

Metrics 125

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High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer!

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