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. Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. We needed to support these choices better.

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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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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a bill requiring “companies to assess the algorithms that process consumer data to examine their impact on accuracy, fairness, bias, discrimination, privacy, and security.” You should not face discrimination by algorithms and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way.

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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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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. You can also test and try templates along with other tools using a framework. With a rapid increase in smartphone usage, the mobile application market is rapidly expanding globally.

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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. Create-React-App. React Router.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They can be designed to execute all types of tasks from complex to simple ones. AI evolves basically around 2 stages of the learning process: 1. 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.

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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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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. WebPageTest is such a fantastic tool for performance testing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React lacks MVC design. Ember js is API-friendly, and its design has two-way and server-side rendering. Whether it is a single-page application SPAs or a complex web interface, Vue JS offers a sleek integration process without moving your whole system. Lacks in MVC architecture. Steep Learning Curve for Developers. Backbone JS.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. Instead, it has been a process of continual improvements, by many engineers across the company. ## A Day in the Life (Performance Engineering) What do I actually do all day?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Where the book really flourishes is in the discussion of the cartoon process: how the cartoons are created, how they are chosen, etc. The insight into the process of writing for the Muppets, Sesame Street and comedy in general are pure gold. Adaptive Web Design, 2nd Edition by Aaron Gustafson 5 ⁄ 5 Full review here.

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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. Consumers of GraphQL APIs can simply leverage the open-source GraphQL client of their preference. And adding custom queries and mutations to a Graphile-generated schema (i.e.

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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.) In the process, it siphons market share by shifting market participants from one activity to another. Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts covered the basics of A/B tests ( Part 1 and Part 2 ), core statistical concepts ( Part 3 and Part 4 ), how to build confidence in a decision ( Part 5 ), and the the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix ( Part 6 ).

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