Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Following are some of the coolest things weve seen engineers do with Live Debugger. With Live Debugger, you can see the precise inputs called your by code in production so you can design your tests accordingly. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become increasingly important to organizations looking to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments.

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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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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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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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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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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over the past decade, DevOps has emerged as a new tech culture and career that marries the rapid iteration desired by software development with the rock-solid stability of the infrastructure operations team. As of August 2019, there are currently over 50,000 LinkedIn DevOps job listings in the United States alone.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated In the Growth Engineering team, we refer to this as the top of the signup funnel. For more background on the signup funnel and Growth Engineering’s role in the signup funnel, please read our initial post on the topic: Growth Engineering at Netflix? Accelerating Innovation.

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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

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Dynatrace news.

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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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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.

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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. What drew you to Netflix?

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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 Performance Engineering team specializes in optimizing resource utilization at Netflix. Some titles (e.g.,

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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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J. Paul Reed

MARCH 14, 2019

The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention As someone with a bit of a reputation for talking about aviation and software development and operations , I’ve been asked about the 737Max repeatedly over the past week. To cope, they added additional monitoring and control systems. a selling point ?—?and

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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. Our dynamic growth in engineering also made us invest in continuous training for new and existing hires. Let me start with the end-user impact.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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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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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Features: An aesthetic and customizable interface with a well-designed console tracking all activities and enabling the user to modify data rows with its powerful editor offering database schema navigation between tables, views, and procedures. It offers extensive features aimed at DBAs and developers who need deep insights.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. We look forward to seeing you there!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. The graphic below (Fig. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

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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. So, why is all this important?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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DZone

MARCH 8, 2024

Finite state machines (FSMs) offer a solution by modeling system behavior as states and transitions, a useful tool that can help software engineers understand software behavior and design effective test cases. Ensuring application reliability is a never-ending quest.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. They know that feature engineering is critical for many models, so they want to stay in control of model inputs and feature engineering logic. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both The steps can be arbitrary Python code.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. AWS Lambda makes it easy to design, run, and maintain application systems without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Here are a few of the most popular. Amazon EC2. Amazon Fargate.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

From site reliability engineering to service-level objectives and DevSecOps, these resources focus on how organizations are using these best practices to innovate at speed without sacrificing quality, reliability, or security. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. – blog.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Composite’ AI, platform engineering, AI data analysis through custom apps This focus on data reliability and data quality also highlights the need for organizations to bring a “ composite AI ” approach to IT operations, security, and DevOps. To learn more about platform engineering, explore the following resources.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. Software Architecture. The new category is often called MLOps.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

This creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional software development approaches simply weren’t designed to handle. Were also betting that this will be a time of software development flourishing. One of the great aspects of the AI Age is that more people will be able to build software. The way out?

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

And describing the testdescribing the function that youre testing, its arguments, the return type, and the expected resultsforces you to think carefully about what youre designing. Thats not where software engineering dies: its where its born. We need to be reminded that software development isnt just about generating code.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

The Dynatrace AI engine, Davis,?automatically – Robert Trueman, Head of Software Engineering at CDL. AI causation engine, to place monitored Lambda functions in context with the other services that depend on them to provide out-of-the-box anomaly detection and root cause analysis. deterministic AI engine,?Davis,?to

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