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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

by Aditya Mavlankar , Zhi Li , Lukáš Krasula and Christos Bampis High dynamic range ( HDR ) video brings a wider range of luminance and a wider gamut of colors, paving the way for a stunning viewing experience. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

This allows local councils to keep certain streets well lit, to accommodate high foot traffic, bring on lighting during adverse weather, when ambient light dims to a dangerous level, or even turn lighting down, for example in an industrial estate, where there are no people. Cloud enables video analytics.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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