The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. Nowadays this should be a baseline capability if you are trying to figure out how to improve an online service, or tune a personalization algorithm. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo

Testing 52

Testing Tuning Database Cache 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching. Hybrid Sync.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52