The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

This thoughtful approach doesnt just address immediate hurdles; it builds the resilience and scalability needed for the future. Challenge: Dont understand the cascading effects of their setup on these perceived black box personalization systems - Personalization System Engineers Role: Develop and operate the personalization systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Scalable Annotation Service — Marken by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal Introduction At Netflix, we have hundreds of micro services each with its own data models or entities. Different types of search queries are supported using the Elasticsearch as a backend search engine. As an example, the label can be ‘shower curtain’.

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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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High Scalability

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Design a video streaming platform similar to Netflix where content creators can upload their video content and viewers are able to play video on different devices. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Problem Statement.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Although Dynatrace has its headquarters in Massachusetts and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE:DT ), the epicenter of product design and creation is in Linz, Austria, where the company was founded in 2005. Key to this recognition as a uniquely global company is an agile and scalable approach to creativity.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .” What are DevOps engineer tools and platforms.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Planned effort Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) effort and time allocation planning typically fall into two domains: Operations Management (50%) Operations Management includes on-call responsibilities, post-mortem assessments, addressing other interruptions, and buffer time. These practices are commonly known as “ chaos engineering. ”

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing enables software engineers to model their applications’ business logic as high-level representations in a directed acyclic graph without explicitly defining a physical execution plan. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering. Recovery time of the latency p90.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the Amazon RDS Service Ready designation. Achieving this designation differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Advanced Technology Partner with a product that is integrated with Amazon RDS and is generally available and fully supported. Next steps.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

This standardization enhances adoption within the personalization stack, simplifies the system, and improves understanding and debuggability for engineers. They must also provide enough information for partner engineers to identify the problem with the underlying service in cases of system-level issues.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Ricky Gardiner , Alex Borysov Background In our previous post , we discussed how we utilize FieldMask as a solution when designing our APIs so that consumers can request the data they need when fetched via gRPC. This solution is not scalable. What if we want to update more than one field and do it atomically in a single RPC?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? Most backend engineering teams follow a process very similar to what is shown below. If so, we invite you to begin the interview process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? How can we design systems that recognize these nuances and empower every title to shine and bring joy to ourmembers?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

that offers security, scalability, and simplicity of use. are technologically very different, Python and JMX extensions designed for Extension Framework 1.0 Python code also carries limited scalability and the burden of governing its security in production environments and lifecycle management. Extensions 2.0 Extensions 2.0

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

A transformative journey into the realm of system design with our tutorial, tailored for software engineers aspiring to architect solutions that seamlessly scale to serve millions of users.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2019

He designed the Merlin engine. No one knows Tom Mueller, even though Tom is the one currently designing a rocket that will put humans on Mars. ????‍??. Consume Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). He's CTO of Propulsion. His name is Tom Mueller. Everyone knows Elon Musk. This way to more quotes.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2020

The making of Edge Gateway, the highly-available and scalable self-serve gateway to configure, manage, and monitor APIs of every business domain at Uber. In October 2014, Uber had started its journey of scale in what … The post Designing Edge Gateway, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges. This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount. This setup prioritizes data safety, with most replicas online at any given time.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability. The first benefit is simplicity. Let’s explore each in more detail. Compute services.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. I used to comment sparingly. Comments tell you about the state, not the code.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

Key insights from this shiftinclude: A Data-Centric Approach : Shifting focus from model-centric strategies, which heavily rely on feature engineering, to a data-centric one. This approach prioritizes the accumulation of large-scale, high-quality data and, where feasible, aims for end-to-end learning.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.' Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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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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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. At a glance – TLDR.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Saving your cloud operations and SRE teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g. You are about to make structural changes to the data and want to know who and what downstream to your service will be impacted.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. Personalized Experience Refresh Netflix Recommendation engine continuously refreshes recommendations for every member.

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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. The culture was also something that piqued my interest.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The goal was to develop a custom solution that enables DevOps and engineering teams to analyze and improve pipeline performance issues and alert on health metrics across CI/CD platforms. Faced with these requirements, Omnilogy carefully evaluated the following two options for implementing a solution to the pipeline observability challenge.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). See you in the New Year. I'd really appreciate it.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Designating and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as availability targets for a service.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

These methods can provide rich information for decision making, such as in experimentation platforms (“XP”) or in algorithmic policy engines. We want to amplify the effectiveness of our researchers by providing them software that can estimate causal effects models efficiently, and can integrate causal effects into large engineering systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Membership Engineering at Netflix is responsible for the plan and pricing configurations for every market worldwide. However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three

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