The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

You are designing a learning system to forecast Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and would want to factor in all upstream dependencies and corresponding historical states. Nonetheless, Netflix data landscape (see below) is complex and many teams collaborate effectively for sharing the responsibility of our data system management.

Infrastructure 223

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 223

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2012

” and “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” are at the top for non-fiction (excluding the web-related ones). 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke. Linchpin by Seth Godin.

Strategy 40

Strategy C++ Design Mobile 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

There is broad buy-in across the company, including from the C-Suite, that, whenever possible, results from A/B tests or other causal inference approaches are near-requirements for decision making. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001.

Education 244

Education Innovation Testing Programming 244