Top 5 Improvements that Boost Netflix Partner Portal Website Performance

Netflix is all about speed. Netflix strives to give the best experience to all its customers — and no one like to wait. I am working in the Open Connect division which ensures that movies are streamed efficiently to everyone around the world. Many pieces of the puzzle are essential for a smooth streaming experience […]

Telemetry has a Centerpiece of Your Software

Patrick Desjardins
Best Practices, React, Redux, Softwares, TypeScript
Aug, 14, 2018
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Since my arrival at Netflix, I have been working all my time on the new Partner Portal of Netflix Open Connect. The website is private, so do not worry if you cannot find a way to access its content. I built the new portal with a few key architectural concepts as the foundation and one […]

Using TypeScript and React to create a Chrome Extension Developer Tool

I recently have a side project that I am dogfooding at Netflix. It is a library that handles HTTP request by acting as a proxy to cache requests. The goal is to avoid redundant parallel call and to avoid requesting data that is still valid while being as simple as possible. It has few configurations, […]

How to communicate from your website to a Chrome Extension

Passing a message from a website to a Chrome Extension is not routine job. Not only the communication between a specific piece of code from the browser to a specific browser is unusual, it is also confusing by the potential type of extension. In this article, I’ll focus on an extension that goes into the […]

TypeScript: Testing Private Members

I wrote about three years ago on how to test private member as well as last year and the year before. One article was more specific to C# and the two others more abstract and on TypeScript, but still relevant today. In this article, I’ll explain how I am testing private members without using any […]

TypeScript and React – Continuous Integration for Pull Request from 3 minutes to 1 minute

At Netflix, software engineers own the full lifecycle of an application, from gathering the requirement to building the code, to the way we handle our life cycle process to the deployment which includes configuring AWS for DNS and load-balancing. I personally like to have on every pull request a build that makes sure that everything […]

Data Access Gateway Project

I have an open source project to handle Ajax call and cache for about 3 months now. I am building that project in my free time and I have been dogfooding the library in one of my project at Netflix. The goal of the library is to avoid having parallel similar Ajax calls and to […]

Unit Tests and Coverage Report in Jenkins using Jest from Create-React-App

Patrick Desjardins
CI, Javascript, Jest, Nodejs, React, Test
Jul, 11, 2018
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Since I left Microsoft Visual Studio Online (VSTS) has an employee I have been using Jenkins which is the continuous integration (ci) platform Netflix uses. I configured two Jenkins jobs for the project I am leading. One is handling every pull request done against master and the second one is executed during the merge of […]

How to create a toast notification in few lines of code

I recently was about to ship a new system when I remember that many months ago I decided to create an error message at the top of the application which was having few constraints. My initial thought was that this error banner would be there only for an unhandled exception which wouldn’t be the central […]

Animating a React Component

I have always been a fan of having user interfaces that are smooth for the eyes. One way to do it is to animate element that moves from one position to another one. When I was working at Microsoft in VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) I developed the animation around widgets. A widget is a […]