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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and The homepage needs to load in a reasonable amount of time, even in poor network conditions. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and and we aim to do it really well.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Innovation areas include the Netflix app itself (across thousands of types of devices), encoding algorithms , and ways to optimize the placement of content on our global Open Connect distribution network. without having to become software engineers themselves.

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243