The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. Many scientists across Netflix have contributed to the way that Netflix analyzes these causal effects. In many areas at Netflix they are already commonly used for these purposes.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of thousands of workflows and millions of jobs are running per day across multiple layers of the big data platform. For efficient error handling, Netflix developed an error classification service, called Pensive, which leverages a rule-based classifier for error classification.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. I had been at Netflix for a few years, and had shipped multiple devices, but this was my first Android TV device.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Backend Engineering Interview Loop When you apply for a backend engineering role at Netflix, or if one of our recruiters or hiring managers find your LinkedIn profile interesting, a recruiter or hiring manager reviews your technical background and experience to see if your experience is aligned with our requirements. Yes, We Are Hiring!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. What is BPF? It performs real time attribution of flow data with application metadata from Sonar.

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JUNE 30, 2020

By Steve Urban , Sridhar Seetharaman , Shilpa Motukuri , Tom Mack , Erik Strauss , Hema Kannan , CJ Barker Netflix is revolutionizing the way a modern studio operates. link] Netflix produces some of the world’s most beloved and award-winning films and series, including The Irishman, The Crown, La Casa de Papel, Ozark, and Tiger King.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Meenakshi Jindal Overview At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. We are using the Netflix Atlas framework to collect and monitor such metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and and what the role entails By Sean Barnes, Studio Production Data Science & Engineering I am going to tell you a story about a person that works for Netflix. That person grew up dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. Pretty straightforward, right?!

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and and what the role entails by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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JULY 15, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix? Kevin, you’ve been at Netflix for over 10 years now, which is pretty incredible.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Netflix Hack Day?—?Fall Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November We know even the silliest idea can spur something more.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling Netflix Certification Scott Bolter , Matthew Lehman , Akshay Garg ¹ At Netflix, we take the task of preserving the creative vision of our content all the way to a subscriber TV screen very seriously. 2020 color space and a larger range of luminance. This concept is known as perceptual mapping ( BT.2087.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. Thousands of organizations worldwide benefit from the tools and ideas shared by the Mac admin community, and Netflix is excited that Escrow Buddy will be among them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Netflix Conductor: A microservices orchestrator In the last two years since inception, Conductor has seen wide adoption and is instrumental in running numerous core workflows at Netflix.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan , Images by David Simmer , Edited by Greg Burrell Netflix has developed a Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework and it is now open source. Our colleagues wrote a Netflix Tech Blog post describing the details of this architecture. We call this Spring Boot Netflix.

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JUNE 22, 2021

At Netflix, we strive to make shows as joyful to watch in every language as in the original language, whether a member watches with original or dubbed audio, closed captions, forced narratives, subtitles or any combination they prefer. Currently, scripts get delivered to Netflix in various ways?—?Microsoft to name a few.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

A large and unexpected opportunity has come my way outside of Netflix that I've decided to try. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. offer letter logo (2014).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Stephanie Lane , Wenjing Zheng , Mihir Tendulkar Source credit: Netflix Within the rapid expansion of data-related roles in the last decade, the title Data Scientist has emerged as an umbrella term for myriad skills and areas of business focus. What best prepared you for your current role at Netflix?

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JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 By Sekwon Choi At Netflix, we are obsessed with the best streaming experiences. Netflix on consumer electronics devices such as TVs, set-top boxes and streaming sticks was until recently using TLS 1.2

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million. By Surabhi Diwan

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JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Netflix Hack Day?—?Fall Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November We know even the silliest idea can spur something more.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Netflix Hack Day?—?Fall Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November We know even the silliest idea can spur something more.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

At Netflix, we have adopted the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern : instead of having one general purpose “backend API”, we have one backend per client (Android/iOS/TV/web). Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

By Liwei Guo , Vivian Li , Julie Beckley , Venkatesh Selvaraj , and Jeff Watts Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to our Android mobile app. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

By Liwei Guo , Vivian Li , Julie Beckley , Venkatesh Selvaraj , and Jeff Watts Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to our Android mobile app. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

The caller has access to Movies where the type is ‘licensed’ (The caller does not have access to Netflix-produced content, but just the licensed content). The policy server evaluates the access policies defined by the source teams and returns a set of constraints.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

by Akshay Garg , Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content. Problem Netflix’s content catalog is composed of video captured and encoded in one of various frame rates ranging from 23.97

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JUNE 4, 2019

As it turns out, for the large majority of Netflix use cases, its performance is far from optimal. Titus is Netflix’s container platform. Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix was originally published in Netflix TechBlog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

In fact, Netflix has led the charge for most of the video technology that drives these conversations, from visual quality improvements like 4K and HDR, to behind-the-scenes technologies that make the streaming experience better for everyone, like adaptive streaming, complexity-based encoding, and AV1. We began streaming 5.1

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

by Astha Singhal (Netflix Application Security) As Netflix continues to create entertainment people love, the security team continues to keep our members, partners, and employees secure. We looked at the endpoint and determined that there was no risk of access to Netflix internal data, so we allowed the researcher to continue testing.

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APRIL 2, 2020

By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on.

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