Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering Productivity engineering at Netflix
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Mar 23, 2024 Discussing productivity engineering at Netflix with Andy Glover, exploring deceptive practices, challenges in managing user alerts, evolution of infrastructure at Netflix, empathy in engineering culture, fostering human connections for success, and decoding tech acronyms in the industry.
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Platform Engineering as Leverage Play
- Platform engineering is fundamentally a leverage play to make engineers more productive and reduce developer cognitive load.
- The focus spans development experience, compute, and storage to let developers focus on code, not infrastructure.
Netflix’s Early Platform Team Formation
- Netflix led early platform team formation to enable scalability and developer productivity.
- The platform's impact was measured by direct developer feedback and adoption for rapid feature delivery.
Hybrid Infrastructure Strategy
- Netflix deliberately chose a hybrid infrastructure separating DVD services and cloud streaming for scalability.
- Early cloud adoption enabled rapid scaling and future-proofing for streaming growth.