The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

delivering a large amount of business value in the process. Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. The net result is, for many datasets, vastly more efficient use of RAM. The team responsible for this curation is Title Operations.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A sizzle reel is a montage of video clips from different titles strung together into a seamless A/V asset that gets members excited about upcoming launches (for example, our Emmys nominations or holiday collections). The process involves compiling personalized multi-title/multi-talent promotional A/V assets on the fly into a Mega Asset.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. In this video, Sr. We hope that our fellow members of the Data Engineering Community find these videos useful and engaging.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. Background Match Cutting is a video editing technique. mp4, clip1.mp4,

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

More than half of our critical streaming video services are now running on JDK 21 with Generational ZGC, so it’s a good time to talk about our experience and the benefits we’ve seen. We have several frameworks that periodically refresh large amounts of on-heap data to avoid external service calls for efficiency.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Only overflow will await you.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Only overflow will await you.Â

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2024

While generative AI has received much of the attention since 2022 for enabling innovation and efficiency, various forms of AI—generative, causal **, and predictive AI —will work together to automate processes, introduce innovation, and other activities in service of digital transformation.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The first goal is to demonstrate how generative AI can bring key business value and efficiency for organizations. While technologies have enabled new productivity and efficiencies, customer expectations have grown exponentially, cyberthreat risks continue to mount, and the pace of business has sped up. But what is AIOps, exactly?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

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DZone

JUNE 7, 2019

It's easy for modern, distributed, high-scale applications to hide database performance and efficiency problems. This session explains a performance measurement and optimization process anyone can use to deliver results predictably, optimizing customer experience while freeing up compute resources and saving money.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Generative AI in IT operations – report Read the study to discover how artificial intelligence (AI) can help IT Ops teams accelerate processes, enable digital transformation, and reduce costs. blog Cloud application security is a combo of policies and processes that aim to reduce the risk of exposing cloud-based applications to threats.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As you follow along in the video, you’ll notice the ability to determine the day of the week for each transaction and visualize the data in a user-friendly bar chart. These alerts serve as early business warnings, allowing you to take necessary measures to prevent disruptions and minimize delays in transaction processing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Repeat the evaluation process after deploying and testing each new update or fix. How cloud automation can help.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The first successful digital video standard was MPEG-2, which truly enabled digital transmission of video.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. In the diagram below of a typical Cosmos service, clients send requests to a Video encoder service API layer. debian packages).

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2023

As the globe strides into 2023 — with rapid change and macroeconomic uncertainty looming — organizations want tools and technologies that enable them to become more efficient, reduce costs, and innovate more. In its most basic form, IT automation executes scripts or processes on a schedule or in response to particular events.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Our assets are often created by selecting static image frames directly from our source videos. Intro to AVA Discovery View AVA is an internal tool that surfaces still frames from video content. The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. Figure 1 shows how we use Bulldozer to move data at Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. Fortunately, there are plenty of free editing tools that streamline the process. Converting your animated GIFs to MP4 videos can make your files up to 95 percent smaller.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. When a problem occurs, we put on our detective hats and start our mystery-solving process by gathering evidence. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Developing, deploying, and monitoring the release of native mobile apps is not an easy process. To effectively and efficiently get mobile apps out the door, monitor their performance, and manage subsequent releases, mobile DevOps practitioners can play an integral role. Session Replay is GDPR compliant and captures no PII data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video. 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. is the story nearly as thrilling and emotional?

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. Time is a critical component of Axion?—?When

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You apply for multiple roles at the same company and proceed through the interview process with each hiring team separately, despite the fact that there is tremendous overlap in the roles. Interviewing can be a daunting endeavor and how companies, and teams, approach the process varies greatly.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The video below demonstrates how Dynatrace ’s AI, Davis , enables auto-remediation by identifying a problem’s precise root cause. Dynatrace’s ability to identify root cause is transformative when strategically embedded within an organization’s Incident Management and Auto-Remediation processes. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Video files? This article is the first of a brief two-part series where we will look specifically at the media you are most likely to use: images, video, and audio. Solving Image Headaches In Gatsby I think that the process of optimizing images can fall into four different buckets: Optimize image files. You get the idea.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2023

SLOs are specifically processed metrics that help businesses balance breakthroughs with reliability. SLO monitoring is an IT process that tracks microservices architecture health based on metrics that express specific performance targets. In the process, Davis causal AI provides automatic and comprehensive root cause analysis.

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