The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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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.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

We are well aware of what is meant by system scalability. System scalability is about maintaining the SLA of the system as the user base continues to grow and as the user activity continues to rise. Software engineering team scalability is equally important. Software Engineering Team Scalability.

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Developers play a crucial role in modern companies. If we want our product to be successful, we need to have a developer-first approach and include observability from day one. Read on to understand why. The World Has Changed Many things have changed in the last decade.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Previously, our application was using one database; developers knew how it worked, and the deployment rarely happened. Software engineers didn’t need to understand the database, and even if they owned it, it was just a single component of the system. Fifteen years later, everything is different.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2023, over 500 million digital apps and services will be developed and deployed using cloud-native approaches. For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. Industry apps explosion. Here is a shortlist to get you started.

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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

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. Finally, the scalability makes computation for large engineering systems tractable, reducing engineering risk.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Problem remediation is too time-consuming According to the DevOps Automation Pulse Survey 2023 , on average, a software engineer takes nine hours to remediate a problem within a production application. Context-rich tickets can be created in systems like Jira or ServiceNow for traceability and compliance.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Dynatrace researchers now have a space to share their contributions and research in the domains of software intelligence, data science, real-time analytics, distributed data systems, and cloud-native application security. The post Showcasing engineering excellence at Dynatrace appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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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. However, we noticed that GPT 3.5

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

DevOps is a widely practiced set of procedures and tools for streamlining the development, release, and updating of software. Despite DevOps’ benefits in supporting and improving specific steps in the software development lifecycle, these procedures can make managing IT operations difficult.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Organizations can then integrate these skilled engineers at key points in the DevOps life cycle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi, what’s your journey to data engineering at Netflix?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

On April 18th, 2024, we hosted the inaugural Data Engineering Open Forum at our Los Gatos office, bringing together data engineers from various industries to share, learn, and connect. At the conference, our speakers share their unique perspectives on modern developments, immediate challenges, and future prospects of data engineering.

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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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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. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.

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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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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the dynamic world of online services, the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) has risen as a pivotal discipline, ensuring that large-scale systems maintain their performance and reliability.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. That implicit context is a critical part of software development and also has to be made available to AI.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Operations teams want to make sure the system doesn’t break.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you want to practice, focus on medium-difficulty real-world problems you might encounter in a software engineering role. Streaming & Gaming Technologies ( [link] ) You are a distributed systems engineer working on product backend systems that support streaming video and/or mobile & cloud games.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Currently, he is in the Alexa Shopping organization where he is developing machine-learning-based solutions to send personalized reorder hints to customers for improving their experience. The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. Problem Statement.

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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. AWS Lambda makes it easy to design, run, and maintain application systems without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The world’s greatest chefs never put anything on the plate that will never be eaten, this rule corresponds to the YAGNI principle in Software Engineering. The non-used code blocks saved for future use are sometimes forgotten and another developer could not be in want of changing the code of the legacy system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Netflix is proud to be a founding member of AOMedia and a key contributor to the development of AV1. Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs. The specification of AV1 was published in 2018.

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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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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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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 Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. availability.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

DevOps and SRE: Methodologies that are transforming software development with the help of DevOps observability. DevOps is a software delivery methodology that comprises flexible practices and processes to create and deliver applications and services, ultimately closing the gap between software development and IT operations.

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