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. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs.

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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. Delivery?—?A

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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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Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

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.

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Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

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.

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. An efficient, risk-assuming IT capability is a superb utility that contains cost.

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. Your Laptop has a filesystem used by hundreds of processes. It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users.

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