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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding? Video encoding using a conventional video codec, like AV1.

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Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology

The Netflix TechBlog

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. That is where standards play a key role. Brands are nested.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. media search index, locations search index, and so forth) in future. For instance, the LikeEvent can be read by the Media Counter Service and is used to update the media count in the data storage.

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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 ? This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

Digital experience monitoring is the practice of using tools and technologies to gather and evaluate metrics as a customer navigates an application to determine the quality of a user’s interaction with its digital touchpoints. What is digital experience monitoring? One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. We ought to heed Collingridge’s warning that technology evolves in uncertain ways. It’s also about ensuring that value from AI is widely shared by preventing premature consolidation.