The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. The weeklong conference brought speakers from across the content, product, and member experience teams to learn about methodological developments and applications in estimating causal effects.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. How does a home automation system work? billion in 2021 to $163.24 in forecast period.

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Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The excellent Megapari app that the betting operator offers for Indian gamers has been created specifically for quality online entertainment betting. The section with online entertainment is large and includes only the top slots from the world providers in the field of slots supply.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

by Akshay Garg , Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content. This concept is illustrated in Figure 5 below. Watch out for an upcoming article going into further details of this solution.

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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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This model offers hassle-free database management as well as access to an extensive suite of services that reduce developer workloads and enhance security while providing operational agility. The great thing about this is that it provides companies with an unprecedented level of freedom when configuring their system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The role of standards and open source software Our 200+ million members watch Netflix on a wide variety of devices, from smartphones, to laptops, to TVs and many more, developed by a large number of partners. The Media Systems team at Netflix actively contributes to the development, the maintenance, and the adoption of ISOBMFF.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. One of the earliest examples of such systems was introduced in the 1986 Buick Riviera. Nick Babich & Gleb Kuznetsov.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Good web application security starts when the application is being developed. Application security tests can be used to tell developers when they have introduced vulnerabilities into the application they’re building. million Americans, 15.2

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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 Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Did you grow up playing the classics on your Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Nintendo 64? If you’re like me and love video games and want to go back to simpler times, you can actually build your own entertainment station that contains a mashup of all the best consoles.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Michael Feathers explores various scaling strategies in light of research about human cognition and systems cohesion. Watch " Choices of scale ".

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts in this series covered the why, what and how of A/B testing, all of which are necessary to reap the benefits of experimentation for product development. There are never any shortcuts when developing and growing culture, and fostering a culture of experimentation is no exception.

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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 !

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

In my talk I brought up a different development thread of AI in the self-driving car context, and in particular Tesla FSD beta, which I have been using for the last few months. FSD isn’t finished yet, but like ChatGPT’s exam results, it’s better than the average human in most situations, and it’s getting better quickly.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While it’s unlikely that the bill will become law, merely raising the possibility of criminal prosecution and jail time has upped the ante for “ commercial entities that operate high-risk information systems or automated-decision systems, such as those that use artificial intelligence or machine learning.”. The answer is yes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In this article we talk about one such functional area, High Definition Multimedia Interface ( HDMI ), the challenges it brings in relation to Netflix certification on STBs, and our in-house developed automated and objective testing workflows that help us simplify this process. Why test High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) ?

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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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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

Today we have local teams in Hong Kong to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

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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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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Tech News Gather

APRIL 18, 2023

Today, mobile apps are no longer just a way of providing information and entertainment but act as an add-on for a company’s brand. Developing a mobile application sounds quite expensive. Most people believe that developing a high-quality mobile app costs a huge amount of money and their limited budget for the application will suffer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and Let’s put it all together and review the system interaction diagram. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the journey of content-based imagery on the Netflix homepage.

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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. We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. Adopters are betting big on microservices. Figure 1: Respondent roles.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

JavaScript is the leading technology for front-end web development , with JavaScript frameworks, developers can gain more grip over UI designing and functionalities. React is one of the open-source JavaScript libraries used chiefly for front-end designing and mobile app development. React is extensively used over all domains.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP! Enter Google!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Challenging this idea, and suggesting that in complex systems, this linearity is soothingly deceptive?—?but then the way developers go about solving it is to analyze the inputs (either from the user, or to the suite of tools that encompass the development process), find the “error,” and then change the inputs.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. Thank you very much for reading.

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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.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React JS is one of the most common web app frameworks favoured by many developers due to its easy learning curve and reusability. Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Why do Developers look for Alternatives to React JS?

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