The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

by Mariana Afonso , Anush Moorthy , Liwei Guo , Lishan Zhu , Anne Aaron Netflix has been one of the pioneers of streaming video-on-demand content?—?we we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and how long it takes for the video to start playing), rebuffer rates, etc.,

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DZone

JULY 2, 2020

In this short video, Rudy de Busscher shows how to connect MicroProfile Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana to produce useful graphics and to help investigate your microservice architecture. The goal of MicroProfile Metrics is to expose monitoring data from the implementation in a unified way.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

At the moment, there is a constantly increasing number of smart video cameras collecting and streaming video throughout the world. In fact, the global video surveillance market is expected to reach $83 billion in the next five years. Of course, many of those cameras are used for security.

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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 Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 24, 2025

We enabled HDR10+ on Netflix using the AV1 video codec that was standardized by the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) in 2018. We recognize that it is hard to convey visual improvements in HDR video using still photographs converted to SDR. AV1 is one of the most efficient codecs available today.

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DZone

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this Java 21 tutorial, we dive into virtual threads, a game-changing feature for developers. Virtual threads are a lightweight and efficient alternative to traditional platform threads, designed to simplify concurrent programming and enhance the performance of Java applications.

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Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Thanks again to Nokia for hosting the ISO meeting, and for inviting us all to speak at their conference!

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

Scalability and low latency are crucial for any application that relies on real-time data. One way to achieve this is by storing data closer to the users. In this post, we'll discuss how you can use YugabyteDB and its read replica nodes to improve the read latency for users across the globe.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Watch video Want to go deeper? As organizations like BT, TD Bank, and BPX navigate the complexities of modern IT environments, we are humbled to be their trusted partner, helping to turn data into action and transform challenges into opportunities. Ready to see how Dynatrace makes the impossible possible?

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

I also did a video covering these ideas. If not the recording should appear right here: Either way, this isn't the first time I wrote about or talked about logging and the common pitfalls we see when logging in production or debugging. I covered this extensively in the old blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

As the number of 4K titles in our catalog continues to grow and more devices support the premium features, we expect these video streams to have an increasing impact on our members and the network. We also show the corresponding full frame which helps to get a sense of how the cutout fits in the corresponding video frame.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Through optimization methods, companies can present value propositions that engaged users will be able to navigate with minimal hiccups Lazy Loading: Efficient Content Delivery Lazy loading is a front-end optimization concept that loads front-end sources such as images, videos, iframes, and others on a website when the page is loaded.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

This is only one of many microservices that make up the Prime Video application. A real-time user experience analytics engine for live video, that looked at all users rather than a subsample. His first edition in 2015 was foundational, and he updated it in 2021 with a second edition. Finally, what were they building?

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DZone

AUGUST 7, 2024

Salesforce Batch Apex is a powerful tool for handling large data volumes and complex data processing tasks asynchronously.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Video 1: Installing extensions from the Hub However, the opposite situation can happen as well. Video 2: Expanding database monitoring according to discovery findings The condition of the databases is one of the most significant factors indicating the health of the whole application. Dynatrace Hub mimics such an 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. The next phase in the migration was to reimplement our existing Falcor API in a GraphQL-first server (Video API Service). To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries. How does it work?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

i.e. video would play for a very short time, then pause, then start again, then pause. They supplied a video and it looked terrible. I walked upstairs and found the engineer who wrote the audio and video pipeline in Ninja, and he gave me a guided tour of the code. In Ninja, this job is performed by an Android Thread.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Try it out for yourself The post Better dashboarding with Dynatrace Davis AI: Instant meaningful insights appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Watch Dynatrace Lab video The post OpenPipeline: Simplify access to critical business data appeared first on Dynatrace news. For more details about OpenPipeline read this Dynatrace OpenPipeline blog post. Want to see how we use business events from log files to support business process monitoring?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Check out the first video of our new video series, Dynatrace Can Do THAT with OpenTelemetry? Once in the Playground, you can use Dynatrace to explore pre-populated OpenTelemetry data. Configure the OpenTelemetry Demo to send data to Dynatrace, or instrument your own application.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Handling multimodal data spanning text, images, videos, and sensor inputs requires resilient architecture to manage the diversity of formats and scale. Multimodal data processing is the evolving need of the latest data platforms powering applications like recommendation systems, autonomous vehicles, and medical diagnostics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In addition, we provide a unified library that enables ML practitioners to seamlessly access video, audio, image, and various text-based assets. Background Match Cutting is a video editing technique. Step 1 We download a video file and produce shot boundary metadata.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video. We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. is the story nearly as thrilling and emotional?

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DZone

MAY 8, 2023

In this series of simulating and troubleshooting performance problems in Scala, let’s discuss how to make threads go into a blocked state. A thread will enter into a blocked state when it cannot acquire a lock on an object because another thread already holds the lock on the same object and doesn’t release it.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

An example of this is shown in the video above, where we incorporated network-related metrics into the Kubernetes cluster dashboard. The intent concept and the open with feature can also be applied in reverse to include data or specific visualizations from an app on a particular dashboard.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Design a video streaming platform similar to Netflix where content creators can upload their video content and viewers are able to play video on different devices. We should also be able to store user statistics of the videos such as number of views, video watched duration, and so forth. Problem Statement.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

Problem Netflix’s content catalog is composed of video captured and encoded in one of various frame rates ranging from 23.97 24→60, 25→60, etc…), which manifests as choppy video playback as illustrated below: With Judder Without Judder It is important to note that the severity of the judder depends on the replication pattern.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

Understanding these elements and how they relate to each other is crucial for tasks such as video summarization and highlights detection, content-based video retrieval, dubbing quality assessment, and video editing. As a result of DTW, the scene headers have timestamps that can indicate possible scene boundaries in the video.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

An example for storing both time and space based data would be an ML algorithm that can identify characters in a frame and wants to store the following for a video In a particular frame (time) In some area in image (space) A character name (annotation data) Pic 1 : Editors requesting changes by drawing shapes like the blue circle shown above.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

by Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Lukas Krasula, Zhi Li, and Pulkit Tandon Introducing the banding artifacts detector developed by Netflix aiming at further improving the delivered video quality Banding artifacts can be pretty annoying. Just a subtle change in the video signal can cause banding artifacts. Banding artifact?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

These UA campaigns typically feature static creatives, launch trailers, and game review videos on platforms like Google, Meta, and TikTok. Transcription, in our context, involves creating a verbatim script of the spoken dialogue, along with precise timing information to perfectly align the text with the original video.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Video overview of Amazon Bedrock dashboard with Dynatrace AI and LLM Observability solution. Compliance: Document all inputs and outputs, maintaining full data lineage from prompt to response to build a clear audit trail and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and audio in codec agnostic container formats and provides features such as audio video synchronization, random access and DRM protection. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. We have one file?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In this video series, Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research , answers your questions about observability and application monitoring. Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research, discusses the four main action-items in the video below. Dynatrace news. Observability has become a hot topic these days in the world of monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Each title is promoted with a custom set of artworks and video assets in support of helping each title find their audience of fans. Here are just a few examples: We maintain a growing suite of video understanding models that categorize characters, storylines, emotions, and cinematography.

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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.

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