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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. Here’s what the final architecture looked like. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Innovation areas include the Netflix app itself (across thousands of types of devices), encoding algorithms , and ways to optimize the placement of content on our global Open Connect distribution network. without having to become software engineers themselves.