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Building Inclusive Mini Golf: a Practical Guide to Accessible XR Development

Colby Morgan discusses practical strategies and technical examples for building accessible and inclusive XR experiences. Learn about their core design principles, including accessibility at the start, invisible features, simplicity, and layered depth, using Walkabout Mini Golf as a case study.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Balancing Coupling in Software Design with Vlad Khononov

In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Vlad Khononov about balancing coupling in software design, the subject of his recent book. They discuss how coupling is necessary for a system to function, but has to be balanced to allow the system to evolve. Vlad identifies three factors that can be used to measure coupling: knowledge sharing, distance, and volatility.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Unleashing Llama's Potential: CPU-based Fine-tuning

Anil Rajput and Rema Hariharan discuss the crucial role of CPU architecture in optimizing Large Language Model (LLM), specifically Llama, performance. They explain hardware-software synchronization for TCO reduction and latency improvements. Learn about core utilization, cache impact, memory bandwidth considerations, and the benefits of chiplet architecture for LLM deployments on CPUs.

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Culture & Methods

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Building Your Personal Brand and Making an Impact: Insights from Principal Engineer Pablo Fredrikson

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pablo Fredrikson, a principal engineer at Bitso, about the importance of building a personal brand, sharing knowledge, and helping others in the tech industry.

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DevOps

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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

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Reactive REST

Jafar Husain explains how Netflix uses reactive programming to build and consume REST endpoints, and how they work around the limitations of the HTTP protocol to create high-performance REST APIs.

Jafar Husain
on Feb 11, 2014

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Build Your Own PaaS the Netflix Way!

Sudhir Tonse presents Netflix' composable PaaS built with several components that have been open sourced.

Sudhir Tonse
on Jan 20, 2014

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Machine Learning & Recommender Systems at Netflix Scale

Xavier Amatriain discusses the machine learning algorithms and architecture behind Netflix' recommender systems, offline experiments and online A/B testing.

Xavier Amatriain
on Jan 16, 2014

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From Code to Monkeys: Continuous Delivery at Netflix

Dianne Marsh presents the open source tools used by Netflix to keep the continuous delivery wheels spinning.

Dianne Marsh
on Dec 16, 2013

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Evolution of the Netflix API

Ben Christensen describes Netflix API's evolution to a web service platform serving all devices and users, the challenges met in operations, deployment, performance, fault-tolerance, and innovation.

Ben Christensen
on Dec 11, 2013

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47:52
How Netflix Architects for Survival

Jeremy Edberg discusses how Netflix designs their systems in order to survive outages, network latency and random instance failure.

Jeremy Edberg
on Nov 29, 2013

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49:18
Big Data Platform as a Service at Netflix

Jeff Magnusson details some of Netflix' key services: Franklin, Sting and Lipstick.

Jeff Magnusson
on Nov 18, 2013

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52:24
Resiliency through Failure - Netflix's Approach to Extreme Availability in the Cloud

Ariel Tseitlin discusses Netflix' failure-based suite of tools, collectively called the Simian Army, used to improve resiliency and maintain the cloud environment.

Ariel Tseitlin
on Sep 22, 2013

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48:52
Architecture & Design

Building Modern Web Sites: A Story of Scalability and Availability

Sid Anand uses examples from LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay to discuss some common causes of outages and scaling issues. He also discusses modern practices in availability and scaling in web sites today.

Sid Anand
on Sep 21, 2013

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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API

Ben Christensen explains how Netflix optimizes server’s interaction with more than 800 client devices by creating customized concurrent service endpoints with RxJava and Hystrix.

Ben Christensen
on Aug 13, 2013

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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API

Ben Christensen describes how Neflix has optimized their API using a functional reactive programming (modeled after Rx) in a polyglot Java stack.

Ben Christensen
on Apr 19, 2013

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49:31
The Structure of API Revolutions

Daniel Jacobson shares advice on dealing with evolving APIs based on his experience with Netflix APIs.

Daniel Jacobson
on Apr 18, 2013

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