The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds. are divided.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). First, we looked at the overall architecture of the replica design. Tiger Team.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. Artists and video editors must create them.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? JoeEmison : Another thing that serverless architectures change: how do you software development. Hungry for more?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Consider using PRPL pattern and app shell architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. Time is a critical component of Axion?—?When

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. At Netflix, we also heavily embrace a microservice architecture that emphasizes separation of concerns. Moving data with Bulldozer at Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. The watermarking functionality, at the start, was a simple offering with various Google Drive integrations for storage and links.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It brought a whole range of additional features such as spatial scalability, region of interest coding, range of supported bit-depths, flexible number of color planes, lossless coding, etc. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. The importance of the network.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much.

Open Source 134

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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