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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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While it’s unlikely that the bill will become law, merely raising the possibility of criminal prosecution and jail time has upped the ante for “ commercial entities that operate high-risk information systems or automated-decision systems, such as those that use artificial intelligence or machine learning.”. The answer is yes.

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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. By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days.

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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. 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.

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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. This helps in saving a lot of time and reducing the development of app costs as you don’t have to create different apps for different mobile operating systems.

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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.

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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. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

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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. Example: Testsigma ’s simple scriptless approach to testing. Check out more about NLP based test development. The apps designed are more user-centric.

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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. Finally, let’s add the test for what we want. spidev.i < 144926 > running 40 interestingness tests in parallel. < 5.3 %, 2282207 bytes ). <

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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. an Information Systems Engineer III at a financial services firm with over 1,000 employees, explained, “We started with SolarWinds, and after that, we moved to Apica.

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Apica

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In order to make that happen, HBO needed extensive load testing capabilities for the new platform. In searching for a partner, HBO was impressed by Apica’s load testing capabilities including our proven performance in platform scalability and extensive experience in advanced enterprise testing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Application security tests can be used to tell developers when they have introduced vulnerabilities into the application they’re building. Static Application Security Tests (SAST) analyze applications early in the pipeline when they are being written.

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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. To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. In this post, we’ll discuss the best automation testing tools for the web and mobile.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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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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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. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. The list goes on and on.

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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. Lower is better. Higher is better.

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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

Rebass is a small UI component library based on the styled System library, making a compelling set of theme-able UI components. Using its built-in Theme-provider, you can extend into custom UI components for your app using the styled component system. 4) OnsenUI. It has over 36k stars on Github. The Best React Component Libraries.

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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. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Success with microservices means owning the software lifecycle.

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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 inliner is a complex system; a large analysis of multiple inputs distilled into a single yes/no signal, and all the machinery necessary to perform such a code transformation). Recent work. The C standard (§ 6.7.4

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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.) Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time. But disruptive tech is not a utility. In recent years the trend has been toward renting that capability rather than owning it.

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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. The Face demonstrates how a system for design is the structure on which you start building a design. A basic feature query tests both a property and a value. The feature you test needn’t be the same as the style you want to apply.

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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).

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React framework has an entirely synthetic event system, while on the other side, Inferno only supports partial synthetic events and specific functions like onClick. You can shift to the latest updates with Ember’s advanced control system. Lack of these features doesn’t negate Inferno from outperforming React in other aspects.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He doesn’t just think compulsory schooling—full of worksheets and testing—is ineffective, he builds a case that it is actively harmful and can’t hold a candle to the way we learn naturally: through play. His style of writing is just so pleasant: conversational, informative and entertaining.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. What more can we learn from this test, to inform the next one?”

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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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