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Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so...
3 months ago
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Making an AB Test Allocator 20x Faster Using Non-blocking IO Many moons ago, I inherited a cross-company AB test and had to figure out how to allocate it...
4 months ago
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How Would You Design Amazon S3? One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
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One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned while answering it.
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4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I...
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6 months ago
In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I evolved to navigate these situations more fluidly.
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How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix Our CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and we had no viable path forward. Here's...
6 months ago
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When Things Are Slow, Look for Queues When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of...
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When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of the most common situations.
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Comprehension of Concurrency is a Lifelong Journey Accept that your understanding is imperfect. There is comfort in letting go.
7 months ago
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One Key Aspect of Optimizing Computational Throughput When optimizing throughput, think carefully about how many CPUs you have when adding threads or...
5 months ago
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
7 months ago
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Metrics Are The Map, Not The Territory We can never obtain a complete and perfect understanding of what our systems are doing. All we have...
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We can never obtain a complete and perfect understanding of what our systems are doing. All we have are incomplete signals to inform our theories.