DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

After years of working in the intricate world of software engineering, I learned that the most beautiful solutions are often those unseen: backends that hum along, scaling with grace and requiring very little attention.

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Addy Osmani

JUNE 14, 2022

Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering Manager

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In response to this shift, platform engineering is growing in popularity. The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery. Why is platform engineering important?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community! Learn more about how batch and streaming data pipelines are built at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Whilst our traditional Dynatrace website predominantly showcases Dynatrace content and product information for visitors, the idea behind the creation of our new Engineering website – engineering.dynatrace.com – was to set up a space to feature the results of our research and innovation efforts and aims to be a site made by engineers for engineers.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In my role as an engineering manager, I know making the leap from an individual contributor (IC) to engineering manager (EM) is not a promotion. What you do as an engineering manager versus what you do as a developer is fundamentally different. One group who is transitioning into engineering 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. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The optimization of performance testing can contribute to achieving sustainable software engineering. The post Sustainable Software Engineering Through Performance Testing appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Why is the digital carbon footprint getting bigger every day?

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a systematic and data-driven approach to improving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems. It combines principles of software engineering, operations, and quality assurance to ensure that systems meet performance goals and business objectives.

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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

MARCH 12, 2025

Site reliability engineering (SRE) plays a vital role in ensuring Java applications' high availability, performance, and scalability. This discipline merges software engineering and operations, aiming to create a robust infrastructure that supports seamless user experiences.

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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. Dynatrace news. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

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DZone

MARCH 9, 2023

In November 2022, the Green Software Foundation organized its first hackathon, “Carbon Hack 2022,” with the aim of supporting software projects whose objective is to reduce carbon emissions. In this article, I will summarize the key concepts of “green software” and explain how software engineers can help reduce carbon emissions.

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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 6, 2024

As organizations look to expand DevOps maturity, improve operational efficiency, and increase developer velocity, they are embracing platform engineering as a key driver. Platform engineering: Build for self-service Self-service deployment is a key attribute of platform engineering. “It makes them more productive.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When it comes to platform engineering, not only does observability play a vital role in the success of organizations’ transformation journeys—it’s key to successful platform engineering initiatives. The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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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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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

MARCH 25, 2025

Following are some of the coolest things weve seen engineers do with Live Debugger. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Modern software practices are notorious for making code extremely hard to debug. Sometimes, you need heavyweight tools.

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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

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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Addy Osmani

DECEMBER 3, 2022

First principles thinking can be helpful for solving complex problems because it allows you to break down a problem into its core elements and then systematically build up a solution from there.

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DZone

DECEMBER 31, 2024

But hey, when you're a software engineer, your idea of "fun" sometimes involves comparing Deno and Node.js Okay, so picture this: its 11 p.m., Ive got a cup of coffee thats somehow both cold and scalding (a skill Ive mastered), and Im spiraling down the rabbit hole of JavaScript runtimes. Yeah, I know, wild Friday night, right?

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DZone

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In recent years, observability has re-emerged as a critical aspect of DevOps and software engineering in general, driven by the growing complexity and scale of modern, cloud-native applications.

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DZone

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Searching for the right people can take time, especially in large and complex software environments. Incident management with clearly defined responsibilities Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) are challenged not only to detect problems and identify the root cause quickly but also to remediate problems immediately.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

This approach delivers substantial benefits: consistent execution, lower costs, better security, and systems that can be maintained like traditional software. 90% accuracy for software will often be a deal-breaker, but the promise of agents rests on the ability to chain them together: even five in a row will fail over 40% of the time!

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In early September I had a very enjoyable technical chat with Steve Klabnik of Rust fame and interviewer Kevin Ball of Software Engineering Daily, and the podcast is now available. We hope you enjoy this deep dive into Rust and C++ on Software Engineering Daily.

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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. This standardization enhances adoption within the personalization stack, simplifies the system, and improves understanding and debuggability for engineers.

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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. How do you ace your DevOps interview?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is best thought of as a practical approach to speeding up new software development and delivery.

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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. Regularly spending time with domain experts is important.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Try it today using Keptn .

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Software engineering team scalability is equally important. Software Engineering Team Scalability. We can say that system scalability is about supporting a linear rate of growth in system resource requirements given that code running inside the system is unchanged.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Software engineers didn’t need to understand the database, and even if they owned it, it was just a single component of the system. Guaranteeing software quality was much easier because the deployment happened rarely, and things could be captured on time via automated tests.

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