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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001. Wherever possible, A/B test results or causal inference studies are an expected input to this decision making process. In fact, not only are test results expected for product decisions?—?it’s

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

To improve data accuracy, we decided to leverage AWS S3 access logs to identify entity relationships not been captured by our traditional ingestion process. During the conformance process, the data collected from different sources is transformed to make sure that all entities in our data flow, such as tables, jobs, reports, etc.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

There are many more application areas where we use ML extensively: search, autonomous drones, robotics in fulfillment centers, text processing and speech recognition (such as in Alexa) etc. And this process must be repeated for every object, face, voice, and language feature in an application.

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Reflections on Visa's High-Availability Payment Network

Abhishek Tiwari

This COMPUTERWORLD article from 2001 provides some insights about early Visa payment processing infrastructure. Way before Google-scale or Facebook-scale existed, there was Visa-scale.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

Two Test of Time awards went to: “Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution” published at MICRO 2001 by Ravi Rajwar and James R. The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. .

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50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills

Smashing Magazine

2001 Greatest Headlines Ever Written. Not strictly aimed at copywriters but still a good overview of the steps in the writing process. My favourite part of the writing process is cleaning the apartment.”. A super handy list of words that grab attention and push buttons. Perfect for hard-hitting headings.

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