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.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. These platforms made markets more efficient and delivered enormous value both to users and to product suppliers.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads. federal agency.

Strategy 177

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 177

Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Corporate focus: Shift from bundle to one business type. To accelerate learning, companies will need to unbundle.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. Patrick Hamann. Patrick Hamann. Scott Jehl.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

While tech firms are not necessarily profiting wildly - usage of advertising-subsidized services is up but their advertising revenues are down, and there are more users of video conference software than there are paying licensees - usage of technology services, particularly collaboration infrastructure, has skyrocketed.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Some examples include: Monitoring a retailer’s online catalog to detect any increase in page load times. And UX designers can use that data to better understand how users interact with an application and how developers can streamline the interface. Examples of real user monitoring. Learn more!

Monitoring 182

Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 182

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% Department of Homeland Security has designated 16 sectors of infrastructure as 'critical', and 14 of them depend on GPS.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Since you now have lots of choices to address your high performance database needs, I decided to write this blog to help you select the most appropriate services for your workload using lessons I have learnt by scaling the infrastructure for Amazon.com.

Cache 131

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 131

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 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs. All told, we received 1,283 responses. Cloud Usage Waxing, not Waning.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events. ElastiCache for Redis delivers predictable microsecond latencies and is super easy to use.

Games 113

Games Retail Latency Education 113

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

” These are SLOs that inform a customer’s application design, and failure to meet them may result in invalidated design assumptions — which doesn’t generally turn out well! It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Orchestrate the processing flow across an end-to-end infrastructure. Such compression is designed to replicate the data such that the reconstruction losses are imperceptible to the human eye. Generate interactive and immersive content.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Applications can be serverless , with entirely ephemeral infrastructure that changes each time. This is by design: CDNs are only able to work because they keep copies of your site around the world. It only means that all the systems and infrastructure that were used to deliver your site in California were working.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Performance Cache Ecommerce 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

Cloud-based applications enjoy the unique elasticity that cloud infrastructures provide. They also offer a powerful computing platform for analyzing live data as it changes and generating immediate feedback or “operational intelligence;” for example, see this blog post describing the use of real-time analytics in a retail application.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

Cloud-based applications enjoy the unique elasticity that cloud infrastructures provide. They also offer a powerful computing platform for analyzing live data as it changes and generating immediate feedback or “operational intelligence;” for example, see this blog post describing the use of real-time analytics in a retail application.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40