The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS has a number of features, including: Stream objects ?— ?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Juan Diego Rodríguez 2023-10-09T11:00:00+00:00 2023-10-09T21:07:06+00:00 Working with media files in Gatsby might not be as straightforward as expected. I remember starting my first Gatsby project. banner { background-image: url("./assets/images/forest-400.jpg");

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. By integrating with studio content systems, we enabled the pipeline to leverage rich metadata from the creative side and create more engaging member experiences like interactive storytelling.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We have built an internal system that allows someone to perform in-video search across the entire Netflix video catalog, and we’d like to share our experience in building this system. Building in-video search To build such a visual search engine, we needed a machine learning system that can understand visual elements.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2024

Through the use of virtualization technology, multiple operating systems can now run on a single physical machine, revolutionizing the way we use computer hardware. Nevertheless, their adaptability and affordability have prompted their adoption in several projects and applications, including robotics, media centers, and home automation.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Database Systems Trend Report. For more: Read the Report The cloud is seamlessly integrated with almost all aspects of life, like business, personal computing, social media, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and more.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s interesting to note that many of the CMS systems available today started as simple blogging platforms. When choosing a CMS system, there are a few things to remember. While some CMS systems can be expensive, many options are available. Top 5 Content Management Systems to Use in 2023! of all websites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. media search index, locations search index, and so forth) in future. System Components. Optimization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A debian packages).

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DZone

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Web services have taken on a crucial role in the foundation of many applications and systems in the modern digital environment. Web services are necessary for seamless data exchange and effective communication between various software components, whether it be an e-commerce platform, a banking application, or a social media network.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

To improve it, we decided to invest in creating a Media Understanding Platform , which enables us to extract meaningful insights from media that we can then surface in our creative tools. Intersection Queries across Multiple Algorithms Several media understanding algorithms return clip or short-duration video segment suggestions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal , Burak Bacioglu Introduction At Netflix, to promote and recommend the content to users in the best possible way there are many Media Algorithm teams which work hand in hand with content creators and editors. Teams generally want to run algorithms and create annotations using all those media files.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Knowledge Management — Leveraging Institutional Data Tristan Reid, software engineer, shares experiences about the Knowledge Management project at Netflix, which seeks to leverage language modeling techniques and metadata from internal systems to improve the impact of the >100K memos that circulate within the company.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The coupling problem Until recently, video quality measurements were generated as part of our Reloaded production system. This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. We call this system Cosmos.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF) is the key packaging standard in the entertainment industry as recently recognized with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). That is where standards play a key role. Brands are nested. We’re hiring!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. Establish a proactive process to keep your products and systems as up-to-date as possible. Finally, establish a clear process to continuously and proactively prevent malicious attacks from entering your systems. Tag us with #TechTransforms to be featured on our pages!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. Now, shutting down systems daily helps the agency focus its cloud initiatives and save costs. Tag us with #TechTransforms to be featured on our pages! Luckily, the AI models have come a long way in learning what happens every evening.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

A file and folder interface for Netflix Cloud Services Written by Vikram Krishnamurthy , Kishore Kasi , Abhishek Kapatkar , and Tejas Chopra In this post, we are introducing Netflix Drive, a Cloud drive for media assets and providing a high level overview of some of its features and interfaces. The major pieces, as shown in Fig.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

Consider the seemingly countless metrics derived from modern container orchestration systems. As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. These are not only numerous but also dynamic.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether it’s your TV, audio system, digital home assistant, or refrigerator chances are those devices run an operating system such as Android allowing you access to the device’s features through apps. Dynatrace news. Hubi is one of those SmartTV boxes from DNA , one of Finland’s telecom providers. You are next: Transform “your DNA”.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling HDMI Testing Here are some of the challenges associated with HDMI testing on STBs: The need to physically obtain and replicate different home entertainment setups of TVs and Home Theater Systems (HDMI topologies). Time spent in manually changing these topologies between and during different tests.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Media p erformance . Watching media sites including CNN, Fox News, and CNBC has been very interesting.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. AI observability is the use of artificial intelligence to capture the performance and cost details generated by various systems in an IT environment. Additionally, organizations need to consider AI observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. For those systems where an upgrade was not possible, we used data from Dynatrace’s automatic vulnerability reports to recommend mitigation actions.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While it’s unlikely that the bill will become law, merely raising the possibility of criminal prosecution and jail time has upped the ante for “ commercial entities that operate high-risk information systems or automated-decision systems, such as those that use artificial intelligence or machine learning.”. The answer is yes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We developed a systems-based approach that uses our interactive and creative technology to programmatically stitch together multiple video clips alongside a synced audio track. A Mega Asset is a large A/V asset made up of video clips from various titles, acting as a library from which the Dynamic Sizzle pulls media.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. A massive rush of users over a very short time period makes systems begin to slow, and then potentially return errors. Your systems will still be overloaded, and problems will continue to impact your users. Step 3: Understand Why Your Systems Break.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

When we write media queries for a UI element, we always describe how that element is styled depending on the screen dimensions. This approach works well when the responsiveness of the target element media query should only depend on viewport size. Example of how media query cannot be reliably linked to element dimensions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Abhishek Tiwari

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We will also cover a specific example of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Media Intelligence (MI) business that faced significant challenges and had to reinvent its product offerings to meet customer demands. The SaaS Media Intelligence business in question began as a press clipping service, providing customers with reports on media coverage.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Ease of use.

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