Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. Rob Hirschfeld of RackN had this perspective on the impact of AI on his domain of infrastructure automation.

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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. Wednesday?—?December This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content.

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J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The interesting pattern I’ve noticed is the way developers react to this idea versus the way operations engineers react: in my experience, developers tend to argue with more veracity that root cause matters and that cause and effect can be concretely established. It’s just an operating system or networking bug.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Apica

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The thing with a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. As the final seasons of the program approached, the network made a decision to bring streaming capabilities into the company and develop its own comprehensive streaming platform.

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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. One approach that is gaining mind-share within Netflix is the concept of GraphQL microservices (GQLMS) as a backend platform facilitating rapid application development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Experimentation and causal inference data scientists who work directly with Netflix business units develop deep domain understanding and intuition about the business areas where they work. Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Say we are developing a new way to generate a piece of evidence, such as a trailer.

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