The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. That is where standards play a key role.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. That’s why we developed and launched high-quality audio. Until now, we’ve only used adaptive streaming for video.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. They believe that they have reduced development time from 20 to 30 percent by having done so.

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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. Chai Atreya of Alteryx did an impressive live demo of using ChapGPT as a guide to developing some analysis in a Python notebook.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. Without app developers, there would be no App Stores; without users creating content as well as consuming it, no social media. Regulators would be wise to get ahead of this development.

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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 The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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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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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Strong AI is considered to be the biggest threat to humans by many scientists including Stephen Hawking who stated that: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…. Machine learning focuses on the development of algorithms that can analyze data and have the capability to make predictions.

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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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Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas, which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt.”. The Phoenix Project. Reinertsen.

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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. >>Download the Case Study Now!

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

To mitigate this uncertainty, executives throughout the entertainment industry have always consulted historical data to help characterize the potential audience of a title using comparable titles, if they exist. All models were developed and deployed using metaflow , Netflix’s open source framework for bringing models into production.

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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 Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. Economic subsidies are a common practice, typically sponsored by governments to protect or advance economic development. But there are a lot of variables in play here.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch 4 ⁄ 5 This is a very different book than the first in the series.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and and we aim to do it really well.

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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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