Greg Burrell

17 years at Netflix, still has World Famous Hair

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase by Netflix Technology Blog https://t.co/0HofBDyW7c

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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). https://t.co/2OhszwNNKr

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

@norootcause Sometimes you want a cloak but no dagger. Law but not order. Front but not center…

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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! https://t.co/wCQ5SkFLvH

[Læra Institute @laerainstitute]

Congratulations to @IntSamiFilmInst for their new partnership with @netflix - the world needs to hear the voices of Sámi and other #Arctic Indigenous peoples, for whom Arctic is homeland, not just pristine wilderness or natural-resource frontier
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[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

By providing a space for our colleagues to share insights, we can learn from their experiences.
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[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

@burgessdryan @NetflixEng @WeAreNetflix Congratulations!

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 https://t.co/rMUs0j9BNk

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 https://t.co/VXuG8fmyoR

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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!) https://t.co/VM75pdJuaA

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 https://t.co/LyGU1NxrYM

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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. https://t.co/kEtS8934hs

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

How to warm petabytes of EVCache while reducing warm up times by 90%? Read about it in the Netflix Technology Blog https://t.co/ElnNUbsYMh

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 @FakeRyanGosling https://t.co/nItMLc8UAO

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 https://t.co/TzUWlkHECi

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 https://t.co/mkBuRxhJzq

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 - https://t.co/CzKMiZ0xY7

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 https://t.co/UyruVvxyqJ

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

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 https://t.co/pMaFwxnpKb

[Greg Burrell @gburrell_greg]

@preethisraman @NetflixUIE @WeAreNetflix Congratulations!