The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and 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 and have only increased both our device and content reach since then.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This data is from the 2007 presentation. It is not surprising that there is a lot of scatter, but the factor of four range in Peak MFLOPS at fixed SPECfp_rate2000/core and the factor of four range in SPECfp_rate2000/core at fixed Peak MFLOPS was higher than I expected… (Also from the 2007 presentation.)

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. The first thing I… Continue reading on The Startup ».

Testing 52

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. Business process automation Business process automation is the foundation for improving operational efficiency.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 17, 2022

On January 12th, 2007, I defended my Ph.D. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary. thesis, which explored a new approach to focus and flow for developers. I took the weekend off for some skiing in Whistler, then filed the incorporation documents with Dr. Gail Murphy, my Ph.D.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process.

Processing 234

Processing Media Latency Innovation 234

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. In order to understand THP, we should first start with a brief description of Linux HugePages. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB.

Database 94

Database Servers Open Source C++ 94

Percona Community

JANUARY 4, 2021

This is the english version of a 2007 article. In de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc somebody asked: Are commands in a script executed strictly sequentially, that is, will the next command only be executed when the previous command has completed, or will the shell automatically start the next command if the system has spare capacity?

Processing 40

Processing Systems 40

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But that’s not really how the world works, not now, and not back in 2007. A few years ago, many developers thought that minimizing “lines of code” was the key to simplification—and it would be easy to tell ChatGPT to solve a problem in as few lines of code as possible.

Software 124

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As the catalog grew and users adopted streaming, so did the opportunities for creating and improving our recommendations.

Media 294

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 294

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

The papers are from 1987, 1997 and 2007. In 2007 Goetz revisited the results, this time also including SSD storage into the mix, which not surprisingly did change everything. The first paper is a true classic; in â??The The 5 Minute Ruleâ?? Amazingly the 5 Minutes still was in effect.

Storage 98

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 98

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

How data is encrypted Going one step further, we can run hexdiff on the two datafiles and look for differences: hexdiff /tmp/tdedata/postgresql/data/base/5/16397 /tmp/tdedata/postgresql/data/base/5/16404 Visuel HexDiff v 0.0.53

Open Source 89

Open Source Storage Database C++ 89

n0derunner

MAY 6, 2019

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Primarily aimed at researchers and developers, but is relevant to anyone about to embark on a benchmarking effort. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Storage Cache Testing 40

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 63

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. 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.

Serverless 233

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 233

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

My list stopped in 2007, so now that 2012 is almost at its end it is a good moment to add the next 5 years to the list. 2007: Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. My list stopped in 2007, so now that 2012 is almost at its end it is a good moment to add the next 5 years to the list. 1959: Ray Charles, What Id Say.

Traffic 79

Traffic Scalability Systems 79

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When you install it you accept the license agreement and once installed there is a file called LICENSE headed GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 – so you know that the code is open source under GPLv3. That shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 129

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 129

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems. You must understand how to use indexes to make sorting cheaper. Looking at this, can you say which is faster: LIMIT 1 or LIMIT 10 ?

Efficiency 109

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 109

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction.

Open Source 86

Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

Summary In 2007, the very first version of NServiceBus was a wrapper around MSMQ. Users would need to make significant changes to their systems just to account for this—it would by no means be a smooth transition. Support for other message transports was added through the years.

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Open Source Systems 98

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

With trade growing, the value proposition of ever-larger ships was self evident in 2007: “On a per-container basis, a larger vessel cost less to build and operate than a smaller one, allowing the owner to undercut competitors’ cargo rates and still earn a healthy profit.”

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 120

Internet Internet AWS Performance 120

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep

Website 40

Website Scalability Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep

Programming 40

Programming Website Scalability Design 40

Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 5 Avoid Calling Unknown Code While Inside a Critical Section (Dec 2007).

C++ 40

C++ Java Programming Website 40

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?, The first thing I found was that every user visible change we made went through an A/B test.

Testing 52

Testing Tuning Database Cache 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

In 2007, for example, the most common desktop resolution was 1024 × 768 pixels. Pixels have been the most common unit of CSS, dating to the beginning of the web. In the old world of desktop screens, before we had any smartphones, the screen’s pixels were always equivalent to CSS pixels.

Operating System 145

Operating System Mobile Testing Systems 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Following the 2007-08 financial crisis, Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati and his team analyzed 4,700 public companies to determine which business strategies work for navigating recessions.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I wrote a first version of this posting on consistency models in December 2007, but I was never happy with it as it was written in haste and the topic is important enough to receive a more thorough treatment. ACM Queue asked me to revise it for use in their magazine and I took the opportunity to improve the article.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 9, 2007

Amazon Hackday 2007 in progress. Midnight in Seattle. World-wide

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 9, 2007

The 2007 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for independently discovering Giant Magnetoresistance in 1988. Their work had a tremendous impact on the computer industry as it revolutionized the way we could store and retrieve information on hard disks.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 10, 2007

I omitted the Dynamo reference from the previous collection, but now that the SOSP program is live: Guiseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swami Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels, “Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store”, to appear in the Proceedings of the (..)

Operating System 60

Operating System Programming Availability Systems 60

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. A 2007 column in the WSJ pointed out that management by objective and total quality management have been replaced by a new trend: management by data. The modern industrial service economy has a few knowledge workers, and lots and lots of drones.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2018

To wit: the ribbon interface that replaced the command menus in Microsoft Office 2007 was not met with enthusiasm. There is low value in seeing something new as it interferes with set patterns and expectations. There is low tolerance for operational inconsistency. A company can be both a development company and an operating company.

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Efficiency C++ Software Software 40