The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. We needed to support these choices better.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We use A/B tests to introduce new product features, such as our daily Top 10 row that help our members discover their next favorite show. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Learning through data is in Netflix’s DNA.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a bill requiring “companies to assess the algorithms that process consumer data to examine their impact on accuracy, fairness, bias, discrimination, privacy, and security.” It’s important to note that each of the five principles addresses outcomes, rather than processes. A couple of years ago, U.S.

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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. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Processing and generating the response. The list goes on and on.

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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. You can also test and try templates along with other tools using a framework. With a rapid increase in smartphone usage, the mobile application market is rapidly expanding globally.

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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. Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

AI evolves basically around 2 stages of the learning process: 1. Deep learning: employs artificial neural networks that keep learning constantly by processing both negative and positive data. Natural Language Processing: the capability of the machine to understand human language as it is spoken. Artificial Narrow Intelligence.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

It promotes the creation of your own boilerplate and helps you initiate the app development process smoothly. It is an entertainment factor that keeps site visitors involved throughout the page loading process. It is typically considered more valuable and straightforward compared to other testing libraries. 20) Enzyme.

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Nick Desaulniers

JANUARY 18, 2019

We want to make sure that we release a high quality implementation, so it’s important to test the new patches on real code and not just small test cases. For the kernel, if the file compiles correctly, the kernel’s KBuild build process will create a file named in the form path/to/.file.o.cmd, Preprocess. l[l_yes] -.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

How to handle tables, different input methods, accessibility, feature detection, testing—it’s all there. There’s also some discussion of process and how things like performance budgets can help. I also have to admit to being thoroughly entertained by many of Scott’s delightfully cheesy one-liners. You know the type.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

These long solo drives were the perfect opportunity to test out ChatGPT’s voice feature because I couldn’t interact with the app using my hands for safety reasons. Whenever I paused for too long, ChatGPT would interpret what I said so far as my request and start processing it.

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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. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. The Phoenix Project. Author: Gene Kim. A crucial read for anyone in the industry. For more information, visit: [link]. Authors: Eliyahu M.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

WebPageTest is such a fantastic tool for performance testing. The book walks through how to read waterfalls (useful for any performance tool), how to test for single-points-of-failure (SPOF), how to use API’s to drive WebPageTest, how to setup a private instance and much more (including some undocumented power features). It’s so good.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Whether it is a single-page application SPAs or a complex web interface, Vue JS offers a sleek integration process without moving your whole system. React allows you to add other JavaScript libraries to your source code easily, while in Angular the process in angular is a tad bit difficult. for your new or existing projects.

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Tim Kadlec

MAY 1, 2013

One of the biggest challenges for many is the workflow: how do you find a process that works for building and designing something intended for such a wide range of devices, input types and contexts? The book is also sprinkled with plenty of humorous bits—making for a very entertaining read (how often can you say that about tech books?).

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

Instead, it has been a process of continual improvements, by many engineers across the company. ## A Day in the Life (Performance Engineering) What do I actually do all day? For Linux, I've also done tuning, kernel analysis, [gdb], testing of [hist triggers], testing of some perf patches, and contributed a few trivial patches of my own.

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Apica

MARCH 31, 2022

The digital performance platform from Apica combines load testing and application performance monitoring for full transactional visibility from end to end. As he noted, “That has changed the way that we have our load testing and synthetic monitoring setup at this point. The WebHooks are obviously really great,” said Greg A.,

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). We're now testing container hosts in production on btrfs, instead of ZFS. Both of those should be easy fixes. It's the official profiler. amazon").

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. Operational Efficiency: The majority of the changes require metadata configuration files and library code changes, usually taking days of testing and service release to adopt the updates. Rules naturally have different lifecycles and impacts.

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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. While @media queries test whether a device is a printer or screen, and tests for height, width, or orientation, the @supports at-rule tests browsers’ features. A basic feature query tests both a property and a value.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

To mitigate this uncertainty, executives throughout the entertainment industry have always consulted historical data to help characterize the potential audience of a title using comparable titles, if they exist. Similar titles In entertainment, it is common to contextualize a new project in terms of existing titles.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. These designers imported new processes which brought art directors, layout artists, and writers together to form the creative teams made popular by the famous advertising creative director Bill Bernbach in the 1960s and 1970s. Vertigo by Saul Bass. Large preview ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One way to do this is by running A/B tests. Netflix typically A/B tests all changes before rolling them out to all members. A drawback to this approach is that tests take time to run and require experimental models be ready to run in production. Some examples of stratification types are: Country?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One way to do this is by running A/B tests. Netflix typically A/B tests all changes before rolling them out to all members. A drawback to this approach is that tests take time to run and require experimental models be ready to run in production. Some examples of stratification types are: Country?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One way to do this is by running A/B tests. Netflix typically A/B tests all changes before rolling them out to all members. A drawback to this approach is that tests take time to run and require experimental models be ready to run in production. Some examples of stratification types are: Country?

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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. Consumers of GraphQL APIs can simply leverage the open-source GraphQL client of their preference.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Where the book really flourishes is in the discussion of the cartoon process: how the cartoons are created, how they are chosen, etc. The insight into the process of writing for the Muppets, Sesame Street and comedy in general are pure gold. His style of writing is just so pleasant: conversational, informative and entertaining.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) In the process, it siphons market share by shifting market participants from one activity to another. Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts covered the basics of A/B tests ( Part 1 and Part 2 ), core statistical concepts ( Part 3 and Part 4 ), how to build confidence in a decision ( Part 5 ), and the the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix ( Part 6 ).

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