The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 28, 2021

That person grew up dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. Upon graduation, they received an offer from Netflix to become an analytics engineer, and pursue their lifelong dream of orchestrating the beautiful synergy of analytics and entertainment. I decided to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology (Go Jackets!!)

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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. While this sounds like the perfect solution, devices that support older HDMI technologies e.g. HDMI v<2.1,

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. But the cloud brought new complexities, such as increasing connections and dependencies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. To stay up to date on our work, follow the Netflix Tech Blog , and if you are interested in joining us, we are currently looking for new stunning colleagues to help us entertain the world!

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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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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2021

Being smarter about their footprint and technology, as well as shifting to paperless and cashless branches, can reduce branch costs with little to no impact on the business. Customers still value the empathy a human advisor brings, but digital technology can augment that experience. Is security a barrier to digitally transforming?

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Here’s how some Gartner analysts describe the current state of WAFs: “With few exceptions, WAF technology has failed to deliver on the promise to automatically enforce a positive security model.”. What is web application security?

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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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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 ? Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

We have challenged these teams to create a socialbot, a conversational AI skill for Alexa that converses engagingly and coherently with humans for 20 minutes on popular topics and news events such as Entertainment, Fashion, Politics, Sports, and Technology.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The modern HMI is a mix of a car control center with an entertainment system. Digital cockpit and entertainment system. Digital HMI just recently became a mass-market technology. vehicle settings such as suspension, climate control, entertainment system, and so on). (Image by Nissan Motor Company ) ( Large preview ).

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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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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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 1, 2018

For those who aren't familiar, Alexa Prize teams use customer feedback to advance several areas of conversational AI, with the grand challenge being a socialbot that can engage coherently for 20 minutes in a fun, high-quality conversation on popular topics such as entertainment, sports, technology, and fashion.

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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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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Any website or a web application that users rely on for their entertainment or fundamental needs should try to have an uptime of 99.9%.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Despite those minor challenges posed by this platform, many individuals are turning towards considering using the DBaaS Model partly because they understand considerable advantages lie underneath implementing & utilizing such technology within their systems.

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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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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 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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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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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. We are going to have to get used to the idea that the entities we are interacting with, whether via email, social media, news and entertainment, or on the roads are increasingly AI operated, and we won’t be able to tell.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Mik Kersten, our founder and CEO, undoubtedly values diversity; all of the author royalties of his best-selling book, Project to Product , go toward the “Project To Product Scholarship” and not-for-profit organizations supporting diversity, women and minorities in technology. .

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Tech News Gather

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These apps are now the most entertaining method to earn cryptocurrency and gain attention. However, the growth of blockchain technology and virtual reality alone is still contributing to the popularity of these apps. Apps that encourage walking to earn money are a fantastic method to boost your motivation for exercise.

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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.

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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 DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations. War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This technology has brought a revolution in the field of healthcare. Artificial intelligence is one of the emerging technologies that is finding its way in all sectors of industry. While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable. They tend to make humans lazy.

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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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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2015

We don't equate investing in Microsoft with investing in King Digital Entertainment. Portrait of a slow-growth (non-technology) firm. As technology starts to become more prominent in their industry, they appear to be well prepared to take it on. On the whole, tech investors want exposure to runaway upside, not steady returns.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

During this time we did do plenty of hard work, rolling out new technologies and major microservice versions, and fixed many problems big and small. The proactive projects usually take weeks or months, and are where I'm developing a new technology or helping other teams with performance analysis or evaluations.

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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. I think it does a good job of explaining how I felt about Mat’s excellent book: Image Performance is an entertaining, practical introduction to the finer details of image compression and performance online.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. APAC Summer Tour.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Understanding them at a deep level will help guide you as things change, helping you to make appropriate decisions about how to wield new technology as it emerges. His style of writing is just so pleasant: conversational, informative and entertaining. While techniques come and go, those guiding principles persist.

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