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OTT Application Testing: What It Is and Why You Can’t Do Without It

DZone

For millions of people stuck at home for months on end, with little to no social interaction, OTT services have become the go-to entertainment channel. Subsequently, the number of available streaming services also skyrocketed, and new players are regularly unveiled.

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A Survey of Causal Inference Applications at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. To measure causal effects we rely heavily on AB testing , but we also leverage quasi-experimentation in cases where AB testing is limited.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Native Frame Rate Playback

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Watch out for an upcoming article going into further details of this solution.

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Netflix Public Bug Bounty, 1 year later

The Netflix TechBlog

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 received a report from a researcher that found a service they didn’t believe should be available on the internet.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. We needed to support these choices better.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We use A/B tests to introduce new product features, such as our daily Top 10 row that help our members discover their next favorite show. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Learning through data is in Netflix’s DNA.

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