All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences. — Bradbury Thompson.

Design 119

Design Media Entertainment Website 119

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. The catalog of available DB connectors is growing (CockroachDB, Cassandra for example) More Processing patterns such as filter, projection, union, join, etc.

Processing 272

Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. Then there’s an “ extended inline assembly ” dialect that allows for you to specify input and output constraints (in what feels like a whole new regex-like language with characters that have architecture specific.

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. and performance (how do you limit queries to avoid DDoSing the database by selecting all rows at once?)

Database 201

Database Entertainment Infrastructure Architecture 201

Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

By connecting toolchains, automating and visualizing how the key four work items flow across defined product value streams, Tasktop was able to generate flow metrics ( through our new Viz product ) to measure performance from the customer’s perspective and make data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. Tasktopians in action.

DevOps 8

DevOps Automotive Media Metrics 8

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

Metrics 124

Metrics Government Systems Testing 124

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Today, I am very happy to announce that QuickSight is now generally available in the N. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users. The reality is that many traditional BI solutions are built on top of legacy desktop and on-premises architectures that are decades old.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! In the absence of true A/B testing, our analyses rely on using the available data to adjust away spurious correlations between the treatment and the outcome metrics. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243