The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
When our members’ kids watch Carmen Sandiego in the back seats of their parents’ car or more generally when the network throughput varies, adaptive streaming technologies are applied to provide the best viewing experience under the network conditions. That is where standards play a key role. We’re hiring!
Dynatrace
OCTOBER 28, 2021
In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. But the cloud brought new complexities, such as increasing connections and dependencies.
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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.
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 2, 2023
The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week. We are going to have to get used to the idea that the entities we are interacting with, whether via email, social media, news and entertainment, or on the roads are increasingly AI operated, and we won’t be able to tell.
The Netflix TechBlog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members.
All Things Distributed
JULY 13, 2010
During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 8, 2021
Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses.
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