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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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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

by Mariana Afonso , Anush Moorthy , Liwei Guo , Lishan Zhu , Anne Aaron Netflix has been one of the pioneers of streaming video-on-demand content?—?we we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and and thus fall back to less efficient encode families. 264/AVC Main profile family.

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Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second.

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Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 All the talks and videos I could find…

Adrian Cockcroft

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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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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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos.