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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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. Speech recognition errors : ChatGPT’s speech recognition system (presumably based on OpenAI’s open-source Whisper model ) is very good, but it does at times misinterpret what I’m saying.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Comments ().

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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. Media Session API. Offscreen Canvas.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved. The world is constantly changing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. the background image shown above).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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