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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below. API Design. Problem Statement. Architecture. Fetching User Feed.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. There are several ways to provide explainability to models but one way is to train an explainer model based on each trained model.

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Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

Augmenting LLM input in this way reduces apparent knowledge gaps in the training data and limits AI hallucinations. The LLM then synthesizes the retrieved data with the augmented prompt and its internal training data to create a response that can be sent back to the user. million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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Why growing AI adoption requires an AI observability strategy

Dynatrace

And an O’Reilly Media survey indicated that two-thirds of survey respondents have already adopted generative AI —a form of AI that uses training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries. AI requires more compute and storage. AI performs frequent data transfers.

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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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Evolution of ML Fact Store

The Netflix TechBlog

We built Axion primarily to remove any training-serving skew and make offline experimentation faster. We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. This drove the approach of the “release train”.