The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. Netflix pioneered chaos engineering out of necessity.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

link] Abiade moved from Expedia to work at AWS and she presented again in 2019 at re:Invent with examples from Lyft showing how they cut the AWS spend component of their cost per ride by 40% by making cost visible and providing tools to optimize. link] For a deep dive on savings plans, this video is excellent.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 5, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. Recent work has given me much fulfilment and a long list of truly awful bugs to recount.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These teams will each receive a $100,000 research grant as a stipend, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) services to support their development efforts, access to new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) APIs, and support from the Alexa team. University of Trento, Italy: Roving Minds. University of Washington, Seattle: HuskyBot.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

link] Abiade moved from Expedia to work at AWS and she presented again in 2019 at re:Invent with examples from Lyft showing how they cut the AWS spend component of their cost per ride by 40% by making cost visible and providing tools to optimize. link] For a deep dive on savings plans, this video is excellent.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. More information.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. Below is a broad technical overview of how to go from an AWS instance to a Netflix Workstation. To meet that demand, we need to attract the world’s best artistic talent.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. But there's another factor at play: jobs are also migrating from both Solaris and Linux to cloud jobs instead, specifically AWS. I suspect at some point there'll be more jobs supporting the AWS cloud than there will be supporting Linux.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

It usually has dependencies, talks to other services, and lives in different AWS regions. A healthy Netflix service enables us to entertain the world. An application lives in an ecosystem The Application Health Model A microservice doesn’t live in isolation. Telltale is application monitoring simplified.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the journey of content-based imagery on the Netflix homepage.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. As a native offering from AWS, QuickSight comes deeply integrated with AWS data sources such as Amazon Redshift, RDS, and S3.

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