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Greg Burrell

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17 years at Netflix, still has World Famous Hair

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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase by Netflix Technology Blog netflixtechblog.com/seeing-through…

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Our members around the world expect Netflix to always just work. My team ensures that it does. We're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (L5). jobs.netflix.com/jobs/108305119

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Netflix is hosting an Indigenous Community Mixer on Oct 18 from 5:30-8:00 pm. Join us for an evening of networking at the Duwamish Longhouse in Seattle, WA. Please share this invite with the Indigenous Seattle Indigenous community, see you there! …digenouscommunitymixer.splashthat.com

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Congratulations to International Sami Film Institute for their new partnership with Netflix - the world needs to hear the voices of Sámi and other Indigenous peoples, for whom Arctic is homeland, not just pristine wilderness or natural-resource frontier
uarctic.org/news/2022/9/th…

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By providing a space for our colleagues to share insights, we can learn from their experiences.
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Netflix has over 220 million members and each might have multiple devices. How do we handle all the events being sent to and from those devices? Read about the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix netflixtechblog.com/rapid-event-no…

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Our members don't want a slow UI or app crashes. That's why we find and fix performance regressions before they happen. Read how in the Netflix Technology Blog netflixtechblog.com/fixing-perform…

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Ever wonder what the interview process is like for a Netflix backend engineer? Read all about it in the Netflix Technology Blog (and yes, we're hiring!) netflixtechblog.com/demystifying-i…

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You've heard that Netflix runs hundreds of A/B tests, you may have seen a few in your Netflix experience. How do these experiments make it into our final product?
Netflix: A Culture of Learning by Netflix Technology Blog netflixtechblog.com/netflix-a-cult…

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Scholarships available! Natives in Tech has partnered with Nucamp (a top-rated coding bootcamp): any person, 18 and over, who is a member of a federally recognized tribe is eligible for the scholarship which covers about 20% of the cost of any bootcamp. iz4.me/rwt38zN4sck1

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How to warm petabytes of EVCache while reducing warm up times by 90%? Read about it in the Netflix Technology Blog link.medium.com/YIbZQ2Csxlb

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Since Spinnaker is a critical tool for other Netflix teams, we decided to invest in a better reliability story. Read about Running Spinnaker in Multiple Regions at Netflix by supermassive backlog blog.spinnaker.io/running-spinna…

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We've expounded extensively on canaries and phased rollout for delivering backend services. Read how we're also using those techniques for delivering client applications. In the Netflix Technology Blog netflixtechblog.com/safe-updates-o…

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You've read about Netflix's A/B testing but how do we make sense of the results? Here's an easy guide to understanding false positives, p-values, rejection regions, and confidence intervals. In the Netflix Technology Blog netflixtechblog.com/interpreting-a…

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Netflix is extending our partnership with the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) to fund a fellowship for emerging Afro Latino and Indigenous Latino filmmakers. Let's find fresh voices to tell authentic stories - about.netflix.com/en/news/helpin…

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You've might have heard that Netflix does A/B testing. As a Netflix member you may have even been in one of these tests. But what does that really mean? Find out in the Netflix Technology Blog netflixtechblog.com/what-is-an-a-b…

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Going faster, faster: security as a product then platform is a win-win for developers and security teams. Securing Netflix Studios At Scale by Netflix Technology Blog netflixtechblog.com/the-show-must-…

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Flaky tests are a reality but you don't have to just throw up your hands and ignore them. Here's one approach to Improving Pull Request Confidence for the Netflix TV App by Netflix Technology Blog link.medium.com/mL0fx8pjfjb

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I worked with this awesome team, they built Telltale and Edgar! And they're hiring. Sr. Frontend Engineer - Observability Experiences jobs.netflix.com/jobs/106186594

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every dashboard is a sunk cost
every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question
every dashboard is an invitation to pattern-match the past instead of interrogate the present
every dashboard gives the illusion of correlation
every dashboard dampens your thinking

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