All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change. This centralization of eligibility logic in the SKU Eligibility Service also enables innovation in different parts of the product that have traditionally been ignored. A SKU Platform that enables product innovation with minimal engineering involvement.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

When you find new ways to measure, you find new ways to innovate. Ranga Muvavarirwa—VP, Entertainment Technology, Comcast, and Jessica Sant, Senior Manager, Engineering, Comcast Interactive Media—were on hand to shatter that perception, providing insights into the earlier days of the company’s transformation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While a diverse set of algorithms working together can produce a great outcome, innovating on such a complex system can be difficult. In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While a diverse set of algorithms working together can produce a great outcome, innovating on such a complex system can be difficult. In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While a diverse set of algorithms working together can produce a great outcome, innovating on such a complex system can be difficult. In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. Powered by Innovation. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Curious to learn more?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The secret sauce that turns the raw ingredients of experimentation into supercharged product innovation is culture. As discussed in Part 6 , there are experimentation and causal inference focussed data scientists who collaborate with product innovation teams across Netflix. But without a little magic, these basics are still not enough.

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