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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

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Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. On the one hand, logic is divided between API, workflow and serverless functions. debian packages).

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Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions

The Morning Paper

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., While being motivated by serverless use cases, there’s nothing especially serverless about the key-value store, Shredder , this paper reports on. A key challenge… is that serverless functions are stateless.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. Organizations are realizing the cost savings and management benefits of serverless automation. The benefits of serverless Lambda functions.

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Formal foundations of serverless computing

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Formal foundations of serverless computing Jangda et al., won a distinguished paper award at OOPSLA this year for their work on ‘Formal foundations of serverless computing.’ They show the conditions under which a serverless function can safely ignore these peculiarities, and thus become much simpler to reason about.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Our approach to NN-based video downscaling The deep downscaler is a neural network architecture designed to improve the end-to-end video quality by learning a higher-quality video downscaler. We employed an adaptive network design that is applicable to the wide variety of resolutions we use for encoding.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

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We went from an essentially serverless model in a monolithic service, to deploying and maintaining a new microservice that hosted our app backend endpoints. While this gave client teams a very convenient “serverless” model, over time we ran into multiple operational and devex challenges with this service.

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