The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. Over the years, the system expanded to support various new use cases. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 80

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io.

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Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Java used to power core file system code. You can reach him at @kpatelwork. Introduction.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Check out the story behind this wonderful book.)

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Performance Education Google Website 89