The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview 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.

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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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 7, 2024

Also in April, I was interviewed by Jordi Mon Companys for Software Engineering Daily, and that interview was just published on the SE Daily podcast. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation. By 2024, over 50% of all IT spending will be directly put towards digital transformation and innovation (up from 31% in 2018).

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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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Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

You will be handing the initiative to your competitors who invested in their software development capabilities and are out-innovating you as a result. As a business leader, you should be asking three questions: Why is software development more complex than I thought? and business innovation speed plummets.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Organizations are increasingly adopting DevOps to stay competitive, innovate faster, and meet customer needs. By helping teams release new software more frequently, DevOps practices are an essential component of digital transformation. Automation versus orchestration. Get started with DevOps orchestration.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Although most organizations invest in innovative mobile app development, not many allocate enough resources toward delivering and measuring the high-quality user experiences customers expect. First, the organization assembled a group of motivated SMEs, including members of the product team as well as iOS and Android engineers.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

As organizations accelerate innovation to keep pace with digital transformation, DevOps observability is becoming a critical key to success for DevOps and DevSecOps teams. According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year. – blog.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change. The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. For more background on Growth Engineering and the signup funnel, please have a look at our previous blog post that covers the basics.

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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. Check back here throughout the event for the latest news, insights, and announcements.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Digital transformation has significantly increased the organizational demand to innovate faster. But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. Automation is a crucial aspect of achieving DevOps excellence.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

Serverless can accelerate innovation (and introduce blind spots). Serverless architectures help developers innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure. The Dynatrace AI engine, Davis,?automatically – Robert Trueman, Head of Software Engineering at CDL.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

Automation thus contributes to accelerated productivity and innovation across the organization. By contrast, the quantitative questions include: What proportion of time do software engineering and development teams spend writing automation scripts? Automation can be particularly powerful when applied to DevOps workflows.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Why is developer observability important for engineers? Manually sifting through data to answer these questions is time-consuming and takes time away from innovation.

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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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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. The goal is to accelerate innovation by eliminating the need for custom automation scripts and point-to-point tool integrations. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

To do that, Anita’s team drove innovation around a common delivery pipeline to enable developers automating operational tasks such as runbook execution to solve infrastructure problems. At Dynatrace our ACE team is enabling our engineers to deliver better software faster. Autonomous Cloud with Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It manages the underlying infrastructure that hosts distributed container-based applications, which frees developers to focus on innovating and developing applications. To gain insight into these problems, software engineers typically deploy application instrumentation frameworks that provide insight into applications and code.

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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. In this model, we scan system logs and metadata generated by various compute engines to collect corresponding lineage data.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2019

By looking at the responses, we found that teams fall into one of three categories: Innovators: CCT between 1 hour – 2 days. With other words, while an Innovator can launch a new feature, or part of a feature, within an hour, a Laggard, in a best-case scenario, would need almost two weeks to complete the same task.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

But, as Justin Scherer, senior software engineer from Northwestern Mutual found, OpenTelemetry by itself is not a panacea. In turn, this saves Scherer’s team time and effort they can spend on automating, innovating, and driving adoption. What is OpenTelemetry?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation. This is an amazing movement providing numerous opportunities for product innovation, but managing this growth has introduced a support burden of ensuring proper security authentication & authorization, cloud hygiene, and scalable processes.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Senior DevOps Engineer : Your engineering work will focus on using your deep knowledge of the web stack including firewalls, web applications, caches and data stores ­ to create innovative infrastructure architectures that are resilient, scalable, and blazingly fast. Please apply here. Apply here. Need excellent people?

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Abhishek Tiwari

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The role of technology in marketing is now evolving from enabler to innovate — a primary reason why marketing technologist are so much in demand. Technology now truly powers and dominates the majority of innovations in marketing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Netflix has a long history of developing innovative tools for observability , so when we began to specify requirements for the new GUI, we were able to leverage experiences from the previous GUIs built for other use cases, as well as real-life user stories from Metaflow users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 30, 2019

By Juliano Moraes , David Henry , Corey Grunewald & Jim Isaacs Recently Netflix has started building mobile apps to bring technology and innovation to our Studio Physical Productions , the portion of the business responsible for producing our TV shows and movies. Here is a shooting day for Glow Season 3.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model.

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High Scalability

MARCH 18, 2021

DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! Who's Hiring? They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! Who's Hiring? They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

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High Scalability

JULY 15, 2021

DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! Who's Hiring? They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2021

DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! Who's Hiring? They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

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