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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

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Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

The Netflix TechBlog

Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. To evaluate and benchmark our dataset, we manually labeled 20 audio tracks from various TV shows which do not overlap with our training data. What constitutes music or speech?

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

2019 will go down as the year when giants collided over who is streaming the right content to win the growing market demand and dollars. Global consumers have high expectations for seamless access via wireless and mobile networks, regardless of their location and the complex, technological components underneath.

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