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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements.

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What is an A/B Test?

The Netflix TechBlog

We wait, and we then compare the values of a variety of metrics from Group A to those from Group B. Some metrics will be specific to the given hypothesis. We then compare metrics between the two groups. How do we most efficiently analyze the data? Here, Group B receives the Upside Down box art.

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Data Mesh?—?A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. More Processing Patterns And Better Efficiency People use Data Mesh not only to move data. They often also want to process or transform their data along the way.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Example use case: Content Knowledge Graph Our knowledge graph of the entertainment world encodes relationships between titles, actors and other attributes of a film or series, supporting all aspects of business at Netflix. A key challenge in creating a knowledge graph is entity resolution.

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! As a result, we are risk averse in decision making and actively mitigate the probability of purchasing ads that are not efficiently attracting new members. Are there metrics that can yield a signal faster? What’s the tradeoff of using those?

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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

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