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How to Prepare for Your DevOps Interview

DZone

DevOps Engineers must be both good software developers and infrastructure experts and, as such, they are expected to know Linux infrastructure, networking, algorithms, and DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

FUN FACT : In this talk , Dikang Gu, a software engineer at Instagram core infra team has mentioned about how they use Cassandra to serve critical usecases, high scalability requirements, and some pain points. It’s apparent that the most important features for feed ranking will be related to social network. References.

Design 334
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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19.

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. 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.

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Extend the AI and automation core of Dynatrace with host extensions to resolve infrastructure problems

Dynatrace

OneAgent gives you all the operational and business performance metrics you need, from the front end to the back end and everything in between—cloud instances, hosts, network health, processes, and services. All the data bound to hosts is analyzed by the Davis AI causation engine and made available on custom dashboards and events pages.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A. 263–1–8 (2023) [ online ] [2] A.