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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. For example, in Reloaded the video quality calculation was implemented inside the video encoder module.

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

CSS Wizardry

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. If you’re streaming video, the difference between a 2Mb 1 connection and a 20Mb connection will surely be appreciated. Latency is defined as…. and reduction in latency. with Resource Hints).

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Generating machine learning based personalized recommendations to discover new people, photos, videos, and stories relevant one’s interest. We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Additionally, we can use columnar databases like Cassandra to store information like user feeds, activities, and counters.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. We have one file?

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Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads

All Things Distributed

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

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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. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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ChatGPT vs. MySQL DBA Challenge

Percona

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. ChatGPT: The innodb_redo_log_capacity parameter specifies the maximum size of the InnoDB redo log buffer, which is used to store changes made to the database before they are written to disk. What could it be?