The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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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. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. Second, backend services or infrastructure can be scaled intelligently as adoption ramps up.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Think curbside delivery for groceries, video conferencing for work and school, and telemedicine for doctor visits. This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

We could also swap out the implementation of a field from GraphQL Shim to Video API with federation directives. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Table Of Contents.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Moreover, just like an A/B test, we’ll be collecting metrics while the experiment is underway and performing statistical analysis at the end to interpret the results. In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g. Defining and running experiments.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). For high traffic systems, processing the individual response times for each request may be too much work.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. These countries generally have a combination of poor technical infrastructure and low adoption, meaning data is both costly to deliver and doesn’t have the economy of scale to drive costs down.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. In fact, every country has its own laws and rules toward this virtual world.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. In fact, every country has its own laws and rules toward this virtual world.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. In fact, every country has its own laws and rules toward this virtual world.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

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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VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Watch the Video of our Telco Expert. downgrading the streaming rate on video). OTT providers offer many ways around the telco billing infrastructure. These systems drive deep insights into network engineering and planning, capacity management, customer retention, and other key metrics. Phones are being sold unlocked.

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VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

downgrading the streaming rate on video). OTT providers offer many ways around the telco billing infrastructure. These systems drive deep insights into network engineering and planning, capacity management, customer retention, and other key metrics. For passive services like email, this wouldn’t be as necessary.

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Analytics Strategy Network Games 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

A Type-M error occurs when, given that we observe a statistically-significant result, the size of the estimated metric movement is magnified (or exaggerated) relative to the truth. We’ve run many tests in this area and use the distribution of metric movements from past tests as an additional input to the analysis. Sensitivity analysis.

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