The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. The weeklong conference brought speakers from across the content, product, and member experience teams to learn about methodological developments and applications in estimating causal effects.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

More development teams across enterprises are adopting new mobile UI frameworks, namely SwiftUI,NET MAUI, and Android’s latest toolkit, Jetpack Compose. This allows developers to focus more of their efforts on innovation and delivering the best user experience to their customers. As people typically spend 4.8

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. Rapid development is enabled via Metaflow namespaces , so individual developers can develop without interfering with production deployments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The engineers assess your technical skills by asking you to solve various design and coding problems. Your work centers around raising levels of abstraction to improve development at scale and creating engineering efficiencies. The interview panel consists of two or three engineers, a hiring manager and a recruiter.

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Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The excellent Megapari app that the betting operator offers for Indian gamers has been created specifically for quality online entertainment betting. The section with online entertainment is large and includes only the top slots from the world providers in the field of slots supply.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. The center decides how to put this information to use. It is not a fallback plan.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. Sources Application developers can expose their domain data in a centralized catalog of Sources. We have provided a Processor SDK to help the advanced users to develop their own processors.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Why is web application security important?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts in this series covered the why, what and how of A/B testing, all of which are necessary to reap the benefits of experimentation for product development. There are never any shortcuts when developing and growing culture, and fostering a culture of experimentation is no exception.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. Reza Badri (Content Valuation) [Reza B.] & Wenjing Z.]

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world !

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Experts explore software architecture security, design heuristics, Next Architecture, and more. 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. Cultivate your personal design heuristics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The role of standards and open source software Our 200+ million members watch Netflix on a wide variety of devices, from smartphones, to laptops, to TVs and many more, developed by a large number of partners. The Media Systems team at Netflix actively contributes to the development, the maintenance, and the adoption of ISOBMFF.

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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. One approach that is gaining mind-share within Netflix is the concept of GraphQL microservices (GQLMS) as a backend platform facilitating rapid application development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g.,

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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. This was a perfectly sufficient design for many years. How, when, and where people want to be entertained continues to evolve.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Teams of scientists, engineers, user experience designers, and product managers read, evaluated, discussed, argued, and finally selected the twelve teams who would be invited to participate in the competition. Today, we’re excited to announce the 12 teams selected to compete with an Amazon sponsorship.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2020

It’s like LiveAid or Lady Gaga’s recent One World: #TogetherAtHome , but for developers. Some of the speakers may be familiar to you, such as Bjarne Stroustrup giving an updated version of his actual TED talk, and Kevlin Henney who is always entertaining and enlightening.

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Tim Kadlec

MAY 1, 2013

Responsive design has many challenges. One of the biggest challenges for many is the workflow: how do you find a process that works for building and designing something intended for such a wide range of devices, input types and contexts? Stephen walks you through his workflow for designing and developing responsive sites.

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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. That’s why we developed and launched high-quality audio. Until now, we’ve only used adaptive streaming for video.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

JavaScript is the leading technology for front-end web development , with JavaScript frameworks, developers can gain more grip over UI designing and functionalities. React is one of the open-source JavaScript libraries used chiefly for front-end designing and mobile app development. Ant Design. Material UI.

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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. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP!

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. Regulators would be wise to get ahead of this development. What Is Economic Rent? It’s not our data.

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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. Developing a mobile application sounds quite expensive. Most people believe that developing a high-quality mobile app costs a huge amount of money and their limited budget for the application will suffer.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

You should not face discrimination by algorithms and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way. That kind of granular approach would make it easier to develop statistical tests that could determine if the solution is harming any of the groups. The answer is yes. Good outcomes do not happen on their own.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’m personally interested in this topic since I am a professor who researches human-computer interaction, user experience design, and cognitive science , so AI voice interfaces are fascinating to me. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React JS is one of the most common web app frameworks favoured by many developers due to its easy learning curve and reusability. Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Why do Developers look for Alternatives to React JS?

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They can be designed to execute all types of tasks from complex to simple ones. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. But the developers have made it happen to a certain extent.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Adaptive Web Design, 2nd Edition by Aaron Gustafson. In the case of Adaptive Web Design , I wouldn’t have been upset if that was the case. But the second edition of Adaptive Web Design isn’t just a minor update—it’s a completely new take on the topic. Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles by Ethan Marcotte.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

per year; the internet users are increasing at an annual growth of 7½%, especially in the developing countries. You get the drift — more and more people are using smartphones every day for both essentials and entertainment. With this codeless automation testing tool, you can start building test cases virtually using design flow charts.

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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 a tech arms race, it's not safe to rent.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. HPC and Amazon EC2. until today. More information.

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