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How to Prepare for Your DevOps Interview

DZone

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. As of August 2019, there are currently over 50,000 LinkedIn DevOps job listings in the United States alone.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. System Components. Streaming Data Model. References.

Design 334
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What Is Load Testing? Ensuring Robust System Performance Under Pressure

DZone

While load testing may sound like an esoteric domain exclusive to software engineers or network administrators, it is, in fact, a silent superhero in our increasingly digital world. It's the silent force keeping the digital infrastructure wheel rotating smoothly, even during peak usage times.

Systems 113
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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems. half of all corporate networks.

Java 261
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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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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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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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