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. It served as the foundation for numerous encoding innovations developed by our team.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. From those innovations came products, solutions, and even categories that didn’t previously exist. Bright people were inventing and innovating, but nobody was there to monetise their work. 6 “What we are is a high performance team.”

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Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

The highly-capable IT professional, one who has the ability to perform technical tasks as well as understand the business context, is already rare. This requires investing in capability development: skills, specialisation, innovation , and so forth. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. But it goes beyond this.

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Government Open Source Latency Code 40

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.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128