The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The packaging step aims at producing such a codec-agnostic sequence of bytes, called packaged format, or container format, which can be manipulated, to some extent, without a deep knowledge of the coding format. The Media Systems team at Netflix actively contributes to the development, the maintenance, and the adoption of ISOBMFF.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. One of the earliest examples of such systems was introduced in the 1986 Buick Riviera. Nick Babich & Gleb Kuznetsov.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

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. The system had significant issues that we were grateful to hear about so we could retire the system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. Simply pull down the defined Docker base image and run it with the appropriate database connection string.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Understanding this DBaaS system might take some adjusting too similar just how traveling on cruises has its tempo which requires us to get used to optimally benefit from what it provides. The great thing about this is that it provides companies with an unprecedented level of freedom when configuring their system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Michael Feathers explores various scaling strategies in light of research about human cognition and systems cohesion. Watch " Choices of scale ".

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and First, the fields can be coded by hand. The following fields are supplied by application code. Let’s put it all together and review the system interaction diagram. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There was a good talk on How to Build Responsible Systems While Leveraging Generative AI Capabilities by Sriram Subramanian of Microsoft, and I had several interesting conversations with him. This is disrupting journalism, education, marketing, and search engine optimization, as well as causing concerns around deep fake images.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling HDMI Testing Here are some of the challenges associated with HDMI testing on STBs: The need to physically obtain and replicate different home entertainment setups of TVs and Home Theater Systems (HDMI topologies). Time spent in manually changing these topologies between and during different tests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Data Scientists play a vital role in building automated systems that leverage causal inference to decide how we spend our advertising budget. Creative excellence and continuous improvements to evidence selection systems are both crucial in achieving this goal.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

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. We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

Code formatting. Rebass is a small UI component library based on the styled System library, making a compelling set of theme-able UI components. Using its built-in Theme-provider, you can extend into custom UI components for your app using the styled component system. React Bootstrap. Tailwind UI. React Fabric. React Spinner.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

You get the drift — more and more people are using smartphones every day for both essentials and entertainment. It’s a low-code platform where you can write your tests in simple English and the platform’s AI capability translates it into code. As per Data Reportal , there are over 5.27 Picture credit: Mabl.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. The list goes on and on. Uptime of Page Elements.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. Adopters are betting big on microservices. Figure 1: Respondent roles. What does that mean?

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Tech News Gather

APRIL 18, 2023

Today, mobile apps are no longer just a way of providing information and entertainment but act as an add-on for a company’s brand. In this type of mobile application, the web code is integrated with the native language to create exclusive features and access native APIs that are not available in JavaScript yet.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. Once the whole fleet has turned over, the code for the now unused version(s) can be removed.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React framework has an entirely synthetic event system, while on the other side, Inferno only supports partial synthetic events and specific functions like onClick. You can shift to the latest updates with Ember’s advanced control system. There are fewer examples and code libraries of the Ember framework. Ember JS Cons.

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Nick Desaulniers

JANUARY 18, 2019

We want to make sure that we release a high quality implementation, so it’s important to test the new patches on real code and not just small test cases. In this post, we’ll take a look at using C-Reduce , a multithreaded code bisection utility for C/C++, to help narrow done a reproducer for a real compiler bug.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Media Session API.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time. But disruptive tech is not a utility. In recent years the trend has been toward renting that capability rather than owning it.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. That doesn’t happen in kernel code; the CPU does that on its own. asm goto is a GNU C extension that allows for assembly code to transfer control flow to a limited, known set of labels in C code.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Machine learning: a feature of AI that provides computer systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experience without being explicitly programmed. Some of those vital areas of supply management system where AI can make the process more efficient, simple and easy are.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Apica

MARCH 31, 2022

an Information Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with over 1,000 employees, explained, “We started with SolarWinds, and after that, we moved to Apica. In Apica, I can write my own custom code, which I can’t do in the other tools. Therefore, it has improved how we run our systems since we monitor multiple environments.”.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Brody saw typography as a medium for commenting ideas and so should be expressive and entertaining. The Face demonstrates how a system for design is the structure on which you start building a design. Widely spaced letters became a familiar part of Brody’s designs for The Face. ra, yk, il).

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. The Code Book by Simon Singh 4 ⁄ 5 A fascinating walk through the history of cryptography! Great starting point!

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