Netflix Engineering: Scale, Studio Tech, and Pitch-to-Play
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Resources & Recommendations
Books
- Netflix's Culture Memo - This internal document outlines Netflix's unique cultural values and principles, including "unusually responsible," "high talent density," and "context not control."
People Mentioned
- Elizabeth Stone (Netflix CTO) - The guest of the podcast episode, discussing Netflix's engineering culture and challenges.
Organizations & Institutions
- Netflix - The company whose engineering culture, challenges, and practices are the main topic of the episode.
- Linear - A unified platform for flags, analytics, and experiments, mentioned as a solution for workflow debt and scaling challenges in software development.
- OpenAI - A company that has successfully adopted Linear for its workflow management.
- Coinbase - A company that has successfully adopted Linear for its workflow management.
- Airbnb - A company whose founders experienced hyper-growth phases, leading to the idea for Linear.
- Uber - A company whose founders experienced hyper-growth phases, leading to the idea for Linear.
- Scale - A company that cut its bug resolution time in half by switching to Linear.
- Notion - A company that increased its experiments from single digits to over 300 with Statsig.
- Microsoft - A company that uses Statsig for speed and reliability at scale.
- Atlassian - A company that uses Statsig for speed and reliability at scale.
- Brex - A company that uses Statsig for speed and reliability at scale.
- Scanline - A visual effects studio acquired by Netflix, specializing in cutting-edge research and technology for data capture and visual effects.
- Eyeline - A visual effects studio acquired by Netflix, specializing in cutting-edge research and technology for data capture and visual effects.
- Open Media Alliance - An industry community co-founded by Netflix that pushes for open advancement of encoding technology.
Tools & Software
- Chaos Monkey - A tool introduced by Netflix to understand how and when systems break, fostering resilience.
- Statsig - A unified platform for flags, analytics, and experiments, enabling continuous development and experimentation.
Websites & Online Resources
- Netflix Tech Blog - A platform where Netflix discusses its engineering innovations and contributions.
- SignalFire - A source of data on tech company retention and talent bars, which showed Netflix in the top tier.
- Linear App (linear.app/switch) - Website for the Linear platform, offering a migration guide and pilot program.
- Statsig (statsig.com/pragmatic) - Website for Statsig, offering a free tier, startup program, and enterprise plans.
- Netflix Open Source - A page showcasing Netflix's numerous open-source contributions.
- The Pragmatic Engineer Deep Dive - A deep dive into how Netflix's engineering levels changed, mentioned as a related resource in the show notes.