The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns.

Media 290

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. This operational efficiency generally translates into significant bottom line benefits. Our Lean IT organization faces a two-phase exposure similar to the credit crisis that struck Wall Street in 2007.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Productivity?—?Local Delivery?—?A

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

With trade growing, the value proposition of ever-larger ships was self evident in 2007: “On a per-container basis, a larger vessel cost less to build and operate than a smaller one, allowing the owner to undercut competitors’ cargo rates and still earn a healthy profit.” The systemic fragility was as plain as day.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure. Developers come and go. IT risks are much the same: we may aggressively manage scope or find some efficiency, but by and large these and many other factors will conspire to delay our projects. Robustness is the antithesis of efficiency.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

This might be a data centre where hardware uptime is guaranteed to process transactions, a timesheeting capability that is available on-demand, or development of a custom application to analyse asset backed securities. Software development capacity, IT infrastructure, and software as a service are all examples of risk assumption.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 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. What is your system used for?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52