The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Each title is promoted with a custom set of artworks and video assets in support of helping each title find their audience of fans. Our goal is to empower creators with innovative tools that support them in effectively and efficiently create the best media possible.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The path to achieving unprecedented productivity and software innovation through ChatGPT and other generative AI – blog Paired with causal AI, organizations can increase the impact and safer use of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies. So, what is artificial intelligence? What is predictive AI?

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But many companies’ IT infrastructure doesn’t start out in the cloud. Many organizations turn to cloud migration and cloud application modernization to gain the benefits of serverless environments, such as flexibility, scalability, and more cost-effective cloud infrastructure. . And Gartner predicts that?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. for the workout video playback feature. The ApDex SLO ensures that users have a positive experience when watching workout videos within the fitness app. and above indicates that most users find the video playback performance excellent or at least acceptable.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost. for the workout video playback feature. The ApDex SLO ensures that users have a positive experience when watching workout videos within the fitness app. and above indicates that most users find the video playback performance excellent or at least acceptable.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 24, 2020

An approach based on observability , automation, and AI, on the other hand, enables you to know precisely what is happening within your environment based on contextualized insights derived from billions of interdependencies among apps, services, and infrastructure. Myth 1 – Enterprise-scale observability is too difficult to accomplish.

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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. but that would slow down our overall pace of innovation. Curious to learn more?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2023

As the globe strides into 2023 — with rapid change and macroeconomic uncertainty looming — organizations want tools and technologies that enable them to become more efficient, reduce costs, and innovate more. AIOps enables autonomous operations and boosts innovation, but you need to know how to implement it correctly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Some of the areas for which we are actively seeking backend engineers include Streaming & Gaming Technologies, Product Innovation, Infrastructure, and Studio Technologies. We value strong judgment, communication, impact, curiosity, innovation, courage, passion, integrity, selflessness, inclusion, and diversity.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The service pairs ideally with single-use functions that tie into other services and is intended to simplify application development and accelerate innovation. On the processing side, GCF functions can interface with Google’s own AI/ML technologies to inspect video and image content. Using GCF within a video analysis workflow.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. Additionally, contextualized real-time dependency mapping and automatic analysis enabled them to quickly assess the risk and take action to protect user data and critical infrastructure. Turn off the tools you no longer need.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the start button. Our data scientists faced numerous challenges in our previous infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The secret sauce that turns the raw ingredients of experimentation into supercharged product innovation is culture. As discussed in Part 6 , there are experimentation and causal inference focussed data scientists who collaborate with product innovation teams across Netflix. But without a little magic, these basics are still not enough.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. Synthetic monitors can be created with our innovative web recorder or through MONACO , our Monitoring-As-Code approach.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The many disaster scenarios and outcomes allow chaos engineers to better model what happens to applications and microservices, which gives them increasing intelligence to share with developers to perfect software and cloud-native infrastructure. Accelerates innovation. The history of chaos engineering. Blast radius.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g.,

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There are no videos of the talks, so I tend to be a bit more experimental and try out new content at GlueCon. My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the second post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. See here for Part 1: Decision Making at Netflix. Figure 2: A simple A/B test.

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DZone

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Nevertheless, this medium of innovation is nowhere near perfect. for a shared document or video stream to reach you. Since the internet has become the first stop for most information, any hindrance in getting what we want quickly can be excruciatingly frustrating.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our quasi-experimentation helps us constantly improve our streaming experience, giving our members fewer buffers and ever better video quality. Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

It is a dark pattern, a map to suboptimal outcomes rather than the true path to competition, innovation and the creation of robust companies and markets. In a well-functioning market, many startups would have explored a technology innovation like on-demand transportation over a much longer period. I disagree.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. This agenda leverages the transformative aspects of technology and encourages Canadian companies, universities, governments, not-for-profits, and entrepreneurs to contribute to building a durable innovation economy.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m posting this on the Sunday before re:Invent, and will update as I find out more during the week… Sustainability Track Sessions and Workshops What follows are the catalog descriptions of the talks, after I’ve watched the videos I’ll update this post with my own commentary. AWS speaker: T.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Another of these exciting start-ups is Teads which runs video advertising for publishers and advertisers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

by Eric Eiswerth Background Netflix has been offering streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) for over 10 years. We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change. A SKU Platform that enables product innovation with minimal engineering involvement. The world has changed a lot in this time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 12, 2021

In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers technology and infrastructure to help production crews create and exchange media during production and post production stages. Credit to Netflix Studio’s Product, Design, Content Hub Engineering teams along with all of the supporting partner and platform teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?),

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Orchestrate the processing flow across an end-to-end infrastructure. One such example is activity recognition in motion video (such as LRCN , Convnets ) which may entail running combinations of both convolutional as well as recurrent neural networks simultaneously. For many IoT applications involving wireless video sensors (e.g.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. What about UHD video? SIGCOMM’20.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013. These are the people working behind the scenes helping customers fully leverage all of AWS’s capabilities when running their infrastructure on AWS.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

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Tasktop

MAY 7, 2019

Enterprises are looking to wrestle control of their spiraling product portfolios as the market demands more innovative and reliable digital experiences. Software applications are becoming increasingly complex as applications and infrastructure architectures become more distributed and multi-layered, with hundreds of APIs and microservices.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

Digital Innovation is Here to Stay . While a return to safe physical interaction in the future may seem desirable for first-class treatment and support, some of the most impactful digital innovations will become permanent fixtures. “I E-prescribing has already replaced traditional paper prescriptions. Focus on the End Users .

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