The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Detect a regression in a test case.

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Tasktop

MAY 17, 2021

The OKR software market mirrors that growth; it’s projected to grow by 13.73% CAGR by 2027 to reach $1946.88M. Yet a major challenge facing traditional organizations is aligning the software product delivery with business results. The last one is a major issue slowing down software product delivery. OKR adoption is accelerating.

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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.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

However, in almost all cases this “smartness” runs in software in the cloud not the object or the device itself. Cloud enables video analytics. For a long time video was recorded to be archived, played back and watched. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

AV1 is the royalty-free video coding format that has most tech experts believing it is the next step in media compression. However, software patents and the need to pay those patent-holders made adoption of the technology almost impossible. Currently Chrome and Firefox support AV1 video decoding but they cannot display AVIF images.

Media 43

Media Internet Internet Speed 43

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. What would the world look like if all of our storage was in the cloud, and access to that storage was so fast we didn’t care?

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 127

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. for the workout video playback feature.

Latency 171

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. for the workout video playback feature.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments (). At werner.ly Syndication.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Accelerate cloud migration: How to modernize faster with Dynatrace – video Watch this tutorial and learn hands-on from Lucas Hocker and Kayla Bondy how Dynatrace helps you migrate better to the cloud. AWS and Dynatrace work better together – video Every cloud provider provides different technologies and services.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 203

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics). As you can imagine, this comes with very real storage costs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. Time is a critical component of Axion?—?When

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

For instance, video playback functionality on Netflix involves requesting URLs for the streams from a service, calling the CDN to download the bits from the streams, requesting a license to decrypt the streams from a separate service, and sending telemetry indicating the successful start of playback to yet another service.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Output plugins deliver logs to storage solutions, analytics tools, and observability platforms like Dynatrace. Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. There is also an excellent video tutorial available on the Is It Observable YouTube channel. Get started today.

Metrics 174

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source 174

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Output plugins deliver logs to storage solutions, analytics tools, and observability platforms like Dynatrace. Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. There is also an excellent video tutorial available on the Is It Observable YouTube channel. Get started today.

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Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source 130

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Webp is based on intra-frame coding from the VP8 video coding format. High-Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC ) is the successor of H.264, Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format. 264, a.k.a.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 12, 2021

Along with the files, metadata plays an important role in downstream workflows, so we make significant efforts to categorize all media into respective assets with the help of the metadata we collect from our partner API integrations as well as our internal video inspection services.

Media 174

Media Cloud Logistics Technology 174

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. getUserMedia().

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

In the “leave” scenario, all lights and thermostats would be turned off, and all sensors and alarms would be activated. ● Individual Data Mining This tweak takes the convenience of home automation software to a whole new level. The inevitable shift of most of our lives into the digital sphere is overshadowed by one drawback: 1.

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Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

The watermarking functionality, at the start, was a simple offering with various Google Drive integrations for storage and links. Current architecture of Prodicle Distribution on Cosmos With Cosmos, we are well-positioned to expand to future use cases like watermarking on images and videos.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. both for compute and storage. Get started at metaflow.org. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework.

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? JoeEmison : Another thing that serverless architectures change: how do you software development.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Build evolvable systems. Automation is key. The importance of the network.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Media Files.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. both for compute and storage. Get started at metaflow.org. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Software teams can reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing, even if they don’t make devices themselves. Durable software not only saves the expense of frequent product overhauls; it also reduces the temptation of unnecessary device upgrades. This is a point Cennydd Bowles made in his excellent book, Future Ethics.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Manageable – DynamoDB eliminates the need for manual capacity planning, provisioning, monitoring of servers, software upgrades, applying security patches, scaling infrastructure, monitoring, performance tuning, replication across distributed datacenters for high availability, and replication across new nodes for data durability.

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