The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

January 17, 2007: Dr. Mik Kersten, Dr. Gail Murphy and Robert Elves founded Tasktop. Just to put it in context, here are some other highlights from 2007: Apple iPhone was announced and launched. Here is the announcement about the founding of the company a couple months after the incorporation [link]. .

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. While sorting may seem simple, it’s important to understand how to do it efficiently and effectively to ensure your queries are optimized and use better indexing.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed. The Price of a Four Star Rating The Wall Street Journal, 6-7 October 2007. How Top Watchmakers Intervene in Auctions The Wall Street Journal, 8 October 2007.

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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.

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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. As the catalog grew and users adopted streaming, so did the opportunities for creating and improving our recommendations.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Other staff devise processes to work around Bob, reducing the company's efficiency. Harper Business, 2007. . - Bob makes it difficult to hire other good staff (word gets around). - Bob discourages customers and investors (word gets around). Other staff may sabotage Bob's work, which sabotages the company. - The No A **e Rule.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Our goals are to make Cosmos easier to use, more resilient, faster and more efficient. The second generation added scale but was extremely difficult to operate. We plan to evolve the programming model to accommodate new use cases.

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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.” In other words it creates devastating Black Swans.”

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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.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. These TransformStream types help applications efficiently deal with large amounts of binary data. CSS Custom Paint.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure. 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. It's a guess.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Fisher, 2007. Billsus, 2007. Khan and D. Jain, 2005. Levin, 2013.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

An efficient, risk-assuming IT capability is a superb utility that contains cost. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007. Conversely, an outward-looking, business-engaged capability that is focused on the business problems at hand is what distinguishes a strategic as opposed to a tactical IT.

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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. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. created_utc?? ?

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