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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). I used to comment sparingly.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Grace Hopper wrote the first complier.

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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

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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Site Reliability Engineering

DZone

Site Reliability Engineering in Today’s World Site reliability engineering is an engineering discipline devoted to maintaining and improving the reliability, durability, and performance of large-scale web services.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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The Show Must Go On: Securing Netflix Studios At Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. We eventually were able to add so much security leverage into Wall-E that the bulk of the “going internet-facing” checklist for Studio applications boiled down to one item: Will you use Wall-E?

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A Recap of the Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

SQLMesh, an open-source project born from our collective experience at companies like Airbnb, Apple, Google, and Netflix, is designed to handle the complexities of evolving data pipelines at an internet scale. In this talk, Iaroslav Zeigerman discusses challenges faced by data practitioners today and how core SQLMesh concepts solve them.