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NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]

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Re: NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]

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Post by mosselman »

Isn't it great that we work in an industry where a company like Netflix, which has increasing competition lately, just shares potential competitive advantages like this?

I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix, however, the people working on this are, probably, pretty proud of what they achieved and thus like to share it with us, their colleagues at other places of work and they have the freedom to do so because of our industry's great track record of knowledge sharing.

Re: NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]

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Post by i_cant_speel »

mosselman wrote: post #3

Isn't it great that we work in an industry where a company like Netflix, which has increasing competition lately, just shares potential competitive advantages like this? I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix, however, the people working on this are, probably, pretty proud of what they achieved and thus like to share it with us, their colleagues at other places of work and they h…

Agreed.

I believe technology as a whole is light-years ahead of where it would be if companies treated all of their findings and system designs as closely-guarded secrets. I am relatively early in my career and I get to open-source a project that I have been working on for the first time and it feels great.

Re: NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]

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Post by bscphil »

mosselman wrote: post #3

Isn't it great that we work in an industry where a company like Netflix, which has increasing competition lately, just shares potential competitive advantages like this? I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix, however, the people working on this are, probably, pretty proud of what they achieved and thus like to share it with us, their colleagues at other places of work and they h…

> I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix

It's even more amazing to me that this is a successful tactic in light of the fact that there's no shortage of people willing to work for ad-tech firms. If working for a company with good values was such a draw, you'd think it would give them more of a competitive advantage. Maybe the real reason is that Netflix's "good values" are genuine, not just a draw for employees. I'm really not sure.

Re: NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]

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Post by gigatexal »

bscphil wrote: post #8
mosselman wrote: post #3

Isn't it great that we work in an industry where a company like Netflix, which has increasing competition lately, just shares potential competitive advantages like this? I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix, however, the people working on this are, probably, pretty proud of what they achieved and thus like to share it with us, their colleagues at other places of work and they h…

> I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix It's even more amazing to me that this is a successful tactic in light of the fact that there's no shortage of people willing to work for ad-tech firms. If working for a company with good values was such a draw, you'd think it would give them more of a competitive advantage. Maybe the real reason is that Netflix's "good values" are genuine…

The whole ad tech space as a data nerd is super enticing. I could work on some really cool data warehouse / database issues but at the end of the day I’d be helping an ad tech company...

Worse yet is I’ve met some really cool people in the space but it is still ad tech

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