The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. The user can choose the most suitable tool for manipulating data, such as Pandas or Polars to use a dataframe API, or one of our internal C++ libraries for various high-performance operations.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. These databases require significant time commitment along with necessary technical skills plus hardware & software costs, all of which are without dedicated team assistance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In this post, we explain these features and how we rely on award-winning standard formats and open source software to enable them. However, high level operations performed on client devices, such as seeking, do not need to be aware of the elementary syntax and benefit from a codec-agnostic format.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

It was the first new Pokémon game in years, the first official Pokémon smartphone game, and Niantic’s first project in concert with a major entertainment company. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates. Figure 11-5.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

by Akshay Garg , Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content.

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Percona

JULY 19, 2023

For example, a table statistics limit is introduced to avoid querying information_schema.tables that may impact DB performance, especially with a high number of DBs / tables present in an instance. I hope you find the article useful and somewhat entertaining. What if you want to change the value later on?

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. When you combine all of this, you can ensure that your apps are allotted the appropriate amount of CPU and memory in the most effective way possible, saving you money and improving performance.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. Some of our Italian ISV partners include Avantune, Docebo, Doxee, Tagetik Software, and TeamSystem.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. Performance numbers.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Selling all forms of entertainment - on different media, on different frequencies, for different prices - is even more interesting. Today, it is achieved by selling entertainment (revenue from selling services that fill the passive time of individuals). Translated into investor-bait, here is what this means.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Each operation performed by the client will be taken as a web request and the result will be a full page reload at the client-side. Performance during a load. HTTP Monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. The passwords of all users should be updated on a regular basis.

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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. including AWS Thinkbox Deadline and Pixar’s Tractor.

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Tech News Gather

APRIL 18, 2023

Today, mobile apps are no longer just a way of providing information and entertainment but act as an add-on for a company’s brand. Perform regular testing: Test the app regularly to ensure that all features of the application are working as expected and are providing users with a rich experience.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Web Performance APIs.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. In theory, the surviving firm should have access to a larger labor pool spanning Subaru drivers to software developers, thus depressing wages, and thus the cost of service.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. The Phoenix Project. Author: Gene Kim. A crucial read for anyone in the industry. So is his marriage.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. At this stage, the machine does not possess any thinking ability, they just perform a set of pre-defined functions. Artificial Narrow Intelligence.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Performance. Finding the simplest react alternatives isn’t as straightforward as many assume because it’s exhausting to search out an ideal match whilst considering the stability and ecosystem support together with API performance delivered by ReactJS. With the Angular framework, you can develop apps with high performance.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. 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. HPC and Amazon EC2.

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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. A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

React offers an easy-to-use declarative UI known as React Transition Group that provides the chance to perform animations while building a web app. It is an entertainment factor that keeps site visitors involved throughout the page loading process. Animation Libraries. 14) React Spinner.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. I gave a talk about container performance recently at DockerCon, and included a quick summary of how they work: YouTube , SlideShare : If you search of slideshare and youtube, you'll find many other good talks on containers as well.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. The combination of the registers that have been spilled by software and the values that have been pushed onto the stack by the CPU before that forms a struct pt_regs. Recent work. The C standard (§ 6.7.4

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Brody saw typography as a medium for commenting ideas and so should be expressive and entertaining. They allow web designers the same control over blending colours that have been a feature of graphics software like Adobe Photoshop for years. Widely spaced letters became a familiar part of Brody’s designs for The Face. Large preview ).

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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. and performance (how do you limit queries to avoid DDoSing the database by selecting all rows at once?)

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. SVG can also be useful for overall performance when optimised well and can be made accessible. Popular graphic software like Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, and Sketch export files bloated by unoptimised elements and unnecessary metadata. Vertigo by Saul Bass.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

I’ve traveled the world asking business executives how do they measure the value of software delivery,” began Mik. bank to illustrate how billions can be squandered on transformation without reaping or measuring the benefits, Mik asked the audience to consider why they’re building software delivery in the first place.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. Even with high performance VMs, generating 1000s of assets can take a long time. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). and we aim to do it really well.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most business users continue to struggle to answer key business questions such as, “Who are my top customers and what are they buying?”, “How is my marketing campaign performing?”, He tells us that QuickSight simplifies the way their users access data to perform self-service analysis and share insights with other.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! To understand the validity of our causal claims, we perform sensitivity analyses to evaluate the robustness of our findings. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members. Beyond average treatment effects.

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