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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. It served as the foundation for numerous encoding innovations developed by our team. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. We call this system Cosmos.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

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. Seat Pagine Gialle Italia is an Italian media company most famous for producing the Yellow and White Pages directories.

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

To scale to a larger number of users and support the growth in data volume spurred by social media, web, mobile, IoT, ad-tech, and ecommerce workloads, these tools require customers to invest in even more infrastructure to maintain performance. Powered by Innovation.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud. Scientists and engineers can contribute new innovations on three fronts, data, statistics, and visualizations.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

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