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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. One of the earliest examples of such systems was introduced in the 1986 Buick Riviera. Nick Babich & Gleb Kuznetsov.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. The Marriott data breach, in which one of its reservation systems had been compromised and hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, were stolen. What is web application security? million Americans, 15.2

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

I recently came across a box of very old technology tucked away in my basement: PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras and even a couple of old laptops, all over two decades old. There are, of course, several transformative technologies in their nascent stages. Before disposing of something, I try to repurpose it if I can.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Cybersecurity itself was considered an esoteric backroom technology problem until we learned of the Equifax breach, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, Log4j vulnerability, and the massive SolarWinds hack. The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy recently published the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Understanding this DBaaS system might take some adjusting too similar just how traveling on cruises has its tempo which requires us to get used to optimally benefit from what it provides. The great thing about this is that it provides companies with an unprecedented level of freedom when configuring their system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. 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.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week. There was a good talk on How to Build Responsible Systems While Leveraging Generative AI Capabilities by Sriram Subramanian of Microsoft, and I had several interesting conversations with him.

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ScaleOut Software

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“Tame Your Data Monster” illustrates the power of real-time digital twins in an entertaining new video. Check out this new video which depicts the challenges in using conventional tools for streaming analytics to track and respond to thousands of data sources in a live system.

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ScaleOut Software

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“Tame Your Data Monster” illustrates the power of real-time digital twins in an entertaining new video. Check out this new video which depicts the challenges in using conventional tools for streaming analytics to track and respond to thousands of data sources in a live system.

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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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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. How does a home automation system work? billion in 2021 to $163.24 in forecast period.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. 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. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. As a result of these collaborations with AWS and Conductor Technologies, VFX studios working on Netflix projects receive dedicated technical support, hands-on solutions architecture engagement, and streamlined rate cards for both compute pricing and licensing costs.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

You get the drift — more and more people are using smartphones every day for both essentials and entertainment. Apart from CI/CD integrations, Leapwork allows cross-technology automation like SAP, Salesforce, Citrix, etc. As per Data Reportal , there are over 5.27

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Machine learning: a feature of AI that provides computer systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experience without being explicitly programmed. This technology has brought a revolution in the field of healthcare. Examples: Machines can evaluate human X-Ray scans.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

JavaScript is the leading technology for front-end web development , with JavaScript frameworks, developers can gain more grip over UI designing and functionalities. Rebass is a small UI component library based on the styled System library, making a compelling set of theme-able UI components. 4) OnsenUI. 14) React Spinner.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React contains a steep learning curve and hence developers are forced to invest a lot of time in learning new technology. React framework has an entirely synthetic event system, while on the other side, Inferno only supports partial synthetic events and specific functions like onClick. Steep Learning Curve for Developers. Many React.js

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. All Systems Red by Martha Wells 4 ⁄ 5. Cennydd explores the ethical considerations of technology in a way that felt fresh even with all the books I’ve been reading on the topic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. We needed a system that could manage hundreds to one-day thousands of workstations. As with any new technology, the experience is not always bug-free.

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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). ^C

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Apica

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Centralizing the technology would improve efficiency and take the company in a more strategic direction for other deployments moving forward. The ability to validate infrastructure scaling and systems resilience is a key result of using Apica’s test platform.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The chattering classes would have us believe that technology disrupts. By way of example, the technology to enable the sharing economy existed for years, but monetizing everything from spare time to the spare bedroom only became appealing when mortgages went underwater, wages stagnated, and the labor participation rate dropped.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. It’s fascinating to read about the different ways our technology-reliant world is vulnerable to attacks.

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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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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2021

These technologies need to fit into the communal spaces where they are placed, like homes and offices. The series is a call to action for everyone developing communal devices–whether you are creating business cases, designing experiences, or building technology–to take a step back and consider what is really needed.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman 4 ⁄ 5 This is a really interesting take on the topic of technology and its influence on the widespread feeling of not having enough time in the day. While most books on the topic place the blame directly on the technology itself, Wajcman digs much deeper.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. Adopters are betting big on microservices. Figure 1: Respondent roles.

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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.) New technologies disrupt by creating new behaviours and expectations among its users. Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time. But disruptive tech is not a utility.

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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. Creative excellence and continuous improvements to evidence selection systems are both crucial in achieving this goal.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

And we own the data pipelines that power everything from executive-oriented dashboards to the personalization systems that help connect each Netflix member with content that will spark joy for them. As a company, we aim to be curious, and to truly and honestly understand our members around the world, and how we can better entertain them.

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