The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). Recent Entries.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. But to thrive, innovations need a certain tension. How companies can prepare themselves to attract the best talents for shaping their digital business. That can be inconvenient.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Such innovation in AI algorithms and approaches results in an increase in model size, exponential growth in the compute needs, caching of temporal states, and multiple models to run simultaneously. Generative and Interactive Visual Workloads.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

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. The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take Peterborough City Council as an example.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.”

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Moreover, a GSI''s performance is designed to meet DynamoDB''s single digit millisecond latency - you can add items to a Users table for a gaming app with tens of millions of users with UserId as the primary key, but retrieve them based on their home city, with no reduction in query performance. Efficient Queries. Start with DynamoDB.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

Although this may be the case, generally speaking a business is less effective if it's primary labor force consists of people who are concrete thinkers, and it is less efficient if its secondary labor are abstract thinkers. The economics of this arrangement favor the few who design over the many who build.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

There isn't much you can do to squeeze operating cash flow efficiency from the asset-heavy business, aside from minimizing overhead costs associated with investing activity. But you can squeeze the operating company for efficiencies, reducing total labor costs with things such as customer self-service.

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40