Making large pricing changes safe to run, safe to resume, and safe to undo. Most days, shipping code to production at Thumbtack is a non-event. You merge your change, a deployment pipeline takes it from there and it rolls out while you monitor the rollout. If a deploy stalls, the system already knows which step it stalled on. If it…
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22 Jul
17 Jul
By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full stack ourselves, from model deployment through inference, inside our existing production environment rather than a separate ML silo. Some of those decisions weren’t obvious, and a few revealed their trade-offs only under production load. This…
24 Jun
Our members trust CRED with their money. They rely on us to clear bills, manage credit, and track their financial lives. This means that if we go down, someone’s EMI is late, someone’s credit score takes a hit, someone’s financial plan falls apart. With over 1,000 microservices and multiple regulated business lines, resilience is the entire product. Most companies treat…
29 May
By Parth Jain , Rakesh Sukumar , Yingwu Zhao , Renzo Sanchez & Nathan Fisher How we built a living map of our distributed infrastructure to help engineers understand dependencies, troubleshoot faster, and keep Netflix running smoothly for our members around the world. The Puzzle with a Thousand Pieces Picture this: It’s 3am, and an engineer gets paged. One of…
7 Apr
Expedia Group Technology — Engineering When your platform’s next user isn’t human Photo by Alex Vasey on Unsplash Earlier this month I hosted a town hall for Expedia Group ™ Platform Engineering organization, focused on the rapid progress happening in the agentic coding space, and what it means for us as engineers and as a platform team. Our teams are…
15 Nov 2023
Over the past year, AI has taken the world by storm. Our industry is innovating at an unprecedented rate, bringing incredible products to market that make life and work easier and more efficient for real people across a wide range of sectors and job functions. Like previous industry shifts—the introduction of the PC, internet, and […] The post Building Paved…
7 Mar 2022
Changing the organisation — to build the technology right. In earlier blog posts, we explored how we moved BBC online to the cloud. This was part of a wider initiative called WebCore, which used a range of serverless technologies to reimagine the BBC website. There were technical challenges we faced integrating WebCore with our architecture , but this initiative has…