The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week.

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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. Carlota Perez’s 2002 theories summarized in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. The pandemic affects everyone. Unfortunately, many more will not.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. The "networked organization" functions because its members develop complex communication patterns. What happened?

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