The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For many roles, you will be given a choice between a take-home coding exercise or a one-hour discussion with one of the engineers from the team. We recommend against interview coding practice puzzle-type exercises, as we don’t ask those types of questions. The problems you are asked to solve are related to the work of the team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?),

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the third post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. To build intuition, let’s run through a thought exercise. Need to catch up?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2020

So with my amazing art skills, I have updated the experience to be more like this; When the whole premise of Vitality is to reward for exercise, and the mechanism to do it, can sometimes fail through issues that are outside of their control, it can lead to a bad brand experience. Which brings me to the fun part.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Pushing the envelope for Simone Biles meant she had to create new boundaries—and innovate new moves. In all, she has four moves named after her: two on floor exercises, one on the beam, and one on the vault. It’s about controlling your mindset when you go out there.”. Changing the game: The Biles.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them. In the future you will see even more innovation from Dynatrace in this space so please stay tuned. It helps customers experience the ease of install and automation rather than seeing it on a PowerPoint slide.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. We parallelize rerun jobs with Titus , Netflix’s container management platform, which allows us to exercise many hundreds of replay files in minutes. What problem are we solving?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s hard to be innovative when all you know is React. The problem is that sort() is a great exercise in problem solving, particularly if you force yourself past simple bubble sort to quicksort , merge sort , and beyond. Or another massive, overbuilt framework. Similarly, I’ve seen arguments that no one needs to learn algorithms.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Or you can plugin, hang out, get some work done, and stick around for evening presentations by innovative startups and community experts. Limited to twenty participants, these full-day bootcamps include hands-on lab exercises using a live environment with the AWS console. Take a look at the AWS Loft homepage. AWS Technical Bootcamps.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

When you can effectively consult a dozen experts anytime you like, it changes how companies organize, how we innovate and how each of us approaches learning and decision-making. That is, the future belongs to t hose who are exercising the intelligence and insight that AI itself does not have. The art of asking is everything.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ethan Mollick (with whom I rarely disagree) writes, “In the real world, most new ideas do not come from the ether; they are based on combinations of existing concepts, which is why innovation scholars have long pointed to the importance of recombination in generating ideas.” There’s an almost unending appetite for “industrial” music.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Increased time spent on innovation. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money. Those in the boardroom have just as much to gain from adopting APM solutions as those on the front lines of DevOps efforts. Better user experiences. Increasing revenue.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

Whether it’s a compelling new series or an innovative product feature, we strive to provide a best-in-class service that people love and can enjoy anytime, anywhere. A key underpinning to keeping our customers happy and streaming is a strong focus on reliability. Put simply, reliability means a system should work and continue working.

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Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely. These articles will also help you understand how to opt out from the telemetry, how it is being sent to Percona, and how you can exercise your data owners’ rights.

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Percona

JULY 3, 2023

If you’re not a Percona customer, I highly recommend becoming one, both because of the value it brings to you having the world’s best database experts at your fingertips and because it enables us to continue to innovate on our suite of free and open source software. If you’re running PMM 2.32.0

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer. It has been an exciting journey—one of thought leadership and innovation—that has enabled us to bring the promise of more elasticity and the flexibility to resize workloads, while retaining availability, consistency, and performance.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

In addition, it can also inculcate resources such as articles, podcasts, and breathing exercises to help users develop coping strategies and resilience. This app nurtures a maker mindset and empowers users to bring their ideas to life by encouraging exploration, experimentation, and innovation.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of the primary justifications given for RTO is to increase worker collaboration with an eye toward driving creativity and innovation. Nor would firms severely cut employee travel budgets in the face of declining revenues - isn’t that precisely the time a company needs more innovation? Which brings us back to the RTO mandates.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Poor code quality ends up drowning teams in re-work and taking resources away from innovation work. The False Developer Quality Equivalency . Ask around, you’ll get plenty of opinions.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2022

advertisers) or exercise pricing power (start charging for use). That said, tech is the driver of labor productivity, product reach and distribution, and a key source of corporate innovation. If that moment didn’t arrive before credit tightening began, well, time’s up.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

An economic model that assesses the extent to which a firm has market power would be substantially an academic exercise. These are real and significant business benefits: indeed, making competitors react by destabelising their agenda is of exponentially greater value than that of the innovations themselves.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Because capital is globally mobile, markets must innovate to remain competitive. Financial markets are innovating at a fast clip. Principle-based regulation posits that compliance with best practices is the best way to facilitate innovation while retaining transparency. Rules can't be written as quickly as markets evolve.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

This exercise helps uncover blind spots and promotes a more comprehensive understanding of the situation. It helps to break free from traditional thinking patterns and opens up avenues for innovative approaches. Challenge assumptions: Inversion encourages you to question your assumptions and beliefs.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. If you buy the cheapest knob-twisters that money can buy, how could you possibly have any expectation for creative thought and innovative output? It's not a hotbed of innovation.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Poor code quality ends up drowning teams in re-work and taking resources away from innovation work. The False Developer Quality Equivalency . Ask around, you’ll get plenty of opinions.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. Destiny awaits.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. Competition at the frontier enables the market and competitive spirits to push innovation forward.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. From those innovations came products, solutions, and even categories that didn’t previously exist. Bright people were inventing and innovating, but nobody was there to monetise their work.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. That competition has driven two decades of incredible security innovation without resorting to prior-restraint gatekeeping. bank passwords).

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2019

Isn't this the very existential threat that leaders of incumbent companies are supposed to be responding to through inventive and innovative means? The incumbent can reap the benefits of change without needing to lead the change, all through exercising its market power and access to finance. That seems like a paradox.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

Knowledge sharing exercises were canceled due to last minute "customer emergencies". A willingness to acknowledge and integrate multiple agendas, needs and goals makes for a turbulent organization, but one that constantly changes, innovates and evolves. Account managers controlled and outright blocked access to customers.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

Replacing one-off paper-and-pen value stream mapping exercises, Tasktop Viz continuously measures the flow of work through the configured value streams. This is when the production capital of innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills.

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