The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

People now depend on digital experiences for access to goods, services, and entertainment. As such, the corporation’s mission is to deliver exceptional—and healthy—gambling entertainment experiences. “A lot has changed and it’s a lot better now that we have a detailed view of how our players behave in the system.”

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Apica

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The thing with a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. As the final seasons of the program approached, the network made a decision to bring streaming capabilities into the company and develop its own comprehensive streaming platform.

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Apica

MARCH 31, 2022

an Information Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with over 1,000 employees, explained, “We started with SolarWinds, and after that, we moved to Apica. The dashboard view tells you the health of the services that we have monitored, and how the health of the entire infrastructure is doing at a glance. As Joseph F.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. Legitimate concerns about security (how does this integrate with our IAM infrastructure to enforce row-level access controls within the database?)

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. position: sticky. CSS color().

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J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Challenging this idea, and suggesting that in complex systems, this linearity is soothingly deceptive?—?but In fact, non-determinism itself is considered a bug: if the unexpected or errant output isn’t reproducible, then developers tend to extend their investigation into other parts of the stack (operating system, network, etc.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Data Scientists play a vital role in building automated systems that leverage causal inference to decide how we spend our advertising budget. Creative excellence and continuous improvements to evidence selection systems are both crucial in achieving this goal.

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