O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. Yet many of the most pressing risks are economic , embedded in the financial aims of the companies that control and manage AI systems and services. Attention allocation was outsourced to the machines.

Social Media 107

Social Media Google Internet Internet 107

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. The list goes on and on. Connection time. Network latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

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.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

Design 230

Design Systems Engineering Entertainment 230

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. This article gives an overview of the system. As a result, today we define Data Mesh as a general purpose data movement and processing platform for moving data between Netflix systems at scale.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

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. Converging Views. Media Session API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. 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. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health. By Andrei U.,

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love. One way to do this is by running A/B tests.

Metrics 124

Metrics Government Systems Testing 124

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love. One way to do this is by running A/B tests.

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Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love. One way to do this is by running A/B tests.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

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.

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Database Entertainment Infrastructure Architecture 201

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. Are there metrics that can yield a signal faster? Combined, these two effects reduce the risk of Type-S and Type-M errors.

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243