The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building services that adhere to software best practices, such as Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), the SOLID principles, and modularization, is crucial to have success at this stage. A service with modular business logic facilitates the seamless addition of an observability endpoint.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. On programming, projects, and products. IEEE, 1980.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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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. In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. This approach is not novel.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

including bug bounty, pentesting, PSIRT (product security incident response), security reviews, and developer security education?—?via a dynamic Asset Inventory that understands the nuances of our bespoke engineering ecosystem and how our applications and data relate to each other. via a shared on-call rotation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy.

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High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

billion : made by Pokeman GO; $13 billion : Netflix's new content budget; Quotable Quotes: @davidbrunelle : The best developers and engineering leaders I've personally worked with do *not* have a notable presence on GitHub or public bodies of speaking or writing work. Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Testing your digital platforms as part of a digital experience program is a vital element of ensuring that your customers have a seamless and user-friendly experience as they interact with your digital platforms. Of course, as with any other aspect of the testing process, some challenges can arise, but this is to be expected.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Each year, Tasktop facilitates its Co-Op program, which hosts students from various colleges and universities to work on different projects and develop experiential learning that will prepare them for a career supporting technology firms. Software Engineer on the Viz team. Pallavi Kain , Sr.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Each year, Tasktop facilitates its Co-Op program, which hosts students from various colleges and universities to work on different projects and develop experiential learning that will prepare them for a career supporting technology firms. Software Engineer on the Viz team. Pallavi Kain, Sr. Tabreek Somani Co-Op Intern. (0:18)

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Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. Were the complex algorithms that I drilled into my memory commonplace when developing a product?

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. PHP is a language that has weathered the test of time and is still frequently used by web developers. Web developers choose PHP for significant website development due to several reasons.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 13, 2016

When it comes to modern JavaScript development, there are a few different ways to handle asynchronous events or data. This is where RxJS comes into play with its reactive programming model. Ben Lesh is a senior software engineer at the very popular entertainment streaming company, Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Users of Prodicle: Production Office Coordinator on their job As the adoption of Prodicle grew over time, Productions asked for more features, which led to the system quickly evolving in multiple programming languages under different teams. We wanted a workflow orchestrator with good observability for developers, and 3.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After perusing the current landscape of workflow orchestrators, we decided to develop a next generation system that can scale horizontally to spread the jobs across the cluster consisting of 100’s of nodes. We developed our own secured expression language (SEL) to ensure security. the number of iteration in the loop statement, etc.)

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

He’d programmed in the 1960s and encouraged me to learn. Software was written in Motorola 6800 assembler, using a PDP-11 running Unix V6 as a development platform. That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The purpose of this probe was to study the Mars climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. In this example, we can clearly see the huge impact of developing software without good specifications, requirement and guidelines can have.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For someone who is just getting started with test automation, I would recommend learning the basics of programming first. We don’t have manual doctors, lawyers or software developers. I think focusing on software engineering skills are a better return on investment. For e.g. Scrum or Kanban.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Personally, I think – and this is clearly linked to the rise of AI and ML – that there has never been a better time than today to develop smart applications and use them. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. Because three things are coming together. That is understandable.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Job interviews for software engineering and other programming positions can be tough. This time we are going to take a turn and validate bracket combinations using the Java programming language. This time we are going to take a turn and validate bracket combinations using the Java programming language.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 30, 2015

Anyone who has been a part of a Computer Science program at a university will probably have dabbled with Fibonacci in their first semester of school. With that said, I think this can be a refresher to anyone going through the interview process for a programming or software engineering position.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

First, Reverb tracks precise value provenance , allowing a developer to quickly identify the reads and writes to JavaScript state that affected a particular variable’s value. See e.g. " Debugging data flows in reactive programs." Changing the program’s state in some way. cookies) at the start of logging.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

While interviewing for software engineering or programming positions, you may get many questions regarding Binary Trees and Binary Search Trees. The post All About Binary Search Trees, In Java appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

The Intangible Result Perhaps even more beneficial than the performance gains has been the improvement in our development velocity in this system. We can now develop, validate, and release changes in minutes which might have before taken days or weeks?—?and and we can do so with significantly increased release quality.

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Tasktop

JULY 7, 2021

In addition to a generous fitness allowance program , the company is also working with a third party to provide teams with online mental health classes and workshops. Sébastien Coquelin, Staff Software Engineer, and his family found themselves dwarfed by the trees on Vancouver Island. How did Tasktopians Recharge? Learn more.

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The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 14, 2015

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, I’ve made a topic regarding Binary Search Trees , but another very important topic in computer science and software engineering is in regards to Graphs. When interviewing for a new programming or software engineering position, it is incredibly likely that you are asked a question on this topic.

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The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 11, 2015

Continuing on the topic of interview questions for programming and software engineering type positions, I thought I’d brush up on a popular one. The post Determine If A Number Is Prime Using JavaScript appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Margaret leads the worldwide solution architect program for sustainability, and gives an excellent talk on how customers should think about optimizing their workloads. STP213 Scaling global carbon footprint management — Blake Blackwell Persefoni Manager Data Engineering and Michael Floyd AWS Head of Sustainability Solutions.

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The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I figured I would change it up a bit and get into the basics of Golang and common Computer Science study material taught in school, but often used in software engineering type positions. This time I figured it would be useful to walk through how to accomplish the same using the Go programming language.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. 61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer talent is a threat to the success of their business. Tech Blog Encourage your developers to write posts on a tech blog. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Just as packet switching was an enabling technology for the Internet and the web, or as capacitive touchscreens were an enabling technology for smart phones, so we think CRDTs may be the foundation for collaborative software that gives users full ownership of their data. The brave new world. The user experience with offline work is splendid.

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