The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While software decoders enable AV1 playback for more powerful devices, a majority of Netflix members enjoy their favorite shows on TVs. AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context. Providing complete and usable third-party solutions is non-trivial (otherwise the cloud vendors would already have done it). Flock treats ML models as software artefacts derived from data.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. A guiding principle.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In industry, engineers (me included) sometimes attack a problem with the tools they have readily available rather than taking a step back and examining the issue at large. Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Secondly, there is enough affordable computing capacity in the cloud for companies and organizations, no matter what their size, to use intelligent applications. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. As a result, there is a critical mass of data available.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Until we acknowledge that hardware put in a home is different from a cloud service, we will never get it right. This is a collision between the expectations of consumers who put something in their home; those expectations run directly against the way rent-to-use services are pitched. Lots of problems, now what?

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