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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

I recently came across a box of very old technology tucked away in my basement: PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras and even a couple of old laptops, all over two decades old. The basic design of the laptop computer hasn't changed much since the late 1980s (although mercifully they weigh less than 17 lbs).

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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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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Cybersecurity itself was considered an esoteric backroom technology problem until we learned of the Equifax breach, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, Log4j vulnerability, and the massive SolarWinds hack. The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy recently published the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. As a result of these collaborations with AWS and Conductor Technologies, VFX studios working on Netflix projects receive dedicated technical support, hands-on solutions architecture engagement, and streamlined rate cards for both compute pricing and licensing costs.

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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. This technology has brought a revolution in the field of healthcare.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Left: W is for War spread designed by Bradbury Thompson, 1952.

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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. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Recent Entries.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Designing Interface Animation by Val Head 5 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

As a front-runner for auto-instrumentation in the observability space, Dynatrace has rolled out support for these technologies to expand its coverage for mobile applications. We use mobile apps to communicate, entertain us, conduct business, shop, and much more—on the go, anytime and anywhere. As people typically spend 4.8

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2021

Being smarter about their footprint and technology, as well as shifting to paperless and cashless branches, can reduce branch costs with little to no impact on the business. Most banking executives are now planning for hybrid experiences, embracing experience design to match services and channels to customer needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

Within 24 hours of last month's post on regulation of technology firms , new anti-trust probes into Google and Apple were reported by the Wall Street Journal. In short, the proposed merger would have yielded everything except for the specific electronic vehicle technology that governments are adamant that auto manufacturers must deliver.

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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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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2021

They are designed with one person in mind: the owner. These technologies need to fit into the communal spaces where they are placed, like homes and offices. This is the start of a series discussing the design of communal devices–devices designed to work in communal spaces. The problems are subtle at first.

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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. During the registration process, the user must choose a unique username and password.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

And BizDevOps is not just a buzzword, it’s a holistic journey that focuses on four dimensions – process, structure, technology and culture.”. To help with that goal, BMW have created a specialized user centre for design, a 530 sqm office with an open door philosophy to provide software delivery teams with professional UX support.

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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. To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. As per Data Reportal , there are over 5.27

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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. 7) Ant-design.

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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.) New technologies disrupt by creating new behaviours and expectations among its users. Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time.

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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. During this time we did do plenty of hard work, rolling out new technologies and major microservice versions, and fixed many problems big and small. That'd make a great story, but it didn't happen.

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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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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React lacks MVC design. React contains a steep learning curve and hence developers are forced to invest a lot of time in learning new technology. Ember js is API-friendly, and its design has two-way and server-side rendering. 5) What front-end technology would be best suitable for web development in 2021? Ember JS Pros.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman 4 ⁄ 5 This is a really interesting take on the topic of technology and its influence on the widespread feeling of not having enough time in the day. While most books on the topic place the blame directly on the technology itself, Wajcman digs much deeper.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Finally, their complex user experiences are designed for power users and not suitable for the fast-growing segment of business users. QuickSight is built on a large number of innovative technologies to get a business user their first insights fast.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.).

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

These data scientists design and execute tests to support learning agendas and contribute to decision making. Just as the Netflix product itself has evolved over the years, our approach to developing technologies to support experimentation at scale continues to evolve. Product evolution via experimentation can be a humbling experience.

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