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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. We moved from centralized linear encoding to distributed chunk-based encoding.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Bampis , Li-Heng Chen and Zhi Li When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes. To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies.

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Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. In the diagram below of a typical Cosmos service, clients send requests to a Video encoder service API layer. debian packages).

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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Serverless computing is a cloud-based, on-demand execution model where customers consume resources solely based on their application usage.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. In the snippet above, we’re accessing the detail key for the video object with id 80154610.

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