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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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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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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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. Nonetheless, Netflix data landscape (see below) is complex and many teams collaborate effectively for sharing the responsibility of our data system management.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

However, as the system has increased in scale and complexity, Pensive has been facing challenges due to its limited support for operational automation, especially for handling memory configuration errors and unclassified errors. To handle errors efficiently, Netflix developed a rule-based classifier for error classification called “Pensive.”

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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.

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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. traditional software) to a Software 2.0

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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 Encoding Technologies team currently has a number of openings, and we can’t wait to have more stunning engineers joining us.

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DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Today I want to tell you a few words about how you can describe your system through mathematical equations — at least to some degree. This article is more focused on overall system design and architecture than any other written by me till today — so consider yourself warned.

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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. the part under control of the automatic system?—?can

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2.

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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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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

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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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The GUI can be extended with plugins, allowing the community to build integrations to other systems, custom visualizations, and embed upcoming features of Metaflow directly into its views. Requirements for a Metaflow GUI Metaflow is a human-centered system by design. The GUI should integrate well with other GUIs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Customer empathy is key to a fully optimized site reliability engineering practice Software engineering can often be an impersonal discipline. A key component of a proactive SRE model involves the implementation of end-to-end monitoring, including on systems that are not directly owned by the SRE team’s organization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

Java 214

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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. The new category is often called MLOps. This approach is not novel.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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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

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

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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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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?

Open Source 176

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

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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. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill. Who's Hiring? Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 4, 2020

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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! Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform. Apply here.

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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.

Analytics 24

Analytics Java Metrics Software Engineering 24

High Scalability

JUNE 11, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform.

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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! Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform. Apply here.

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High Scalability

APRIL 28, 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! Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform. Apply here.

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High Scalability

MARCH 30, 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! Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform. Apply here. Apply here.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform.

Education 105

Education AWS Scalability Java 105

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. We found that High Scalability readers are about 80% more likely to be in the top bracket of engineering skill. Who's Hiring? Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here.

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