The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Improvements in SQL Server 2016. The subject of this post is the additional changes that are enabled for metadata-only from SQL Server 2016 onward. ALTER COLUMN id bigint NOT NULL ; Thanks to the improvements in SQL Server 2016, this command changes metadata only , and completes immediately. CREATE TABLE dbo. ( SELECT.

Servers 63

Servers Database Testing Efficiency 63

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. The following chart shows the same 1TB database testing. SQL Server 2016. or newer release.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. Starting with the Linux 4.18 Starting with the Linux 4.18 4 Socket, TPCC.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90