The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Conclusion and Future Work The intersection of media and ML holds numerous prospects for innovation and impact. As the catalog grew and users adopted streaming, so did the opportunities for creating and improving our recommendations.

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 294

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution.

Open Source 84

Open Source Programming Database Servers 84

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

The end of the Turning Point marks the start of the Deployment Period , when the production capital of that age’s innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. . These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

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

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A development company is in the invention or innovation business. To wit: the ribbon interface that replaced the command menus in Microsoft Office 2007 was not met with enthusiasm. To start, it's worth asking: why isn't work like this today, every day, for everyone, everywhere? There is low tolerance for operational inconsistency.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency C++ Software Software 40

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 25, 2009

The recent announcement is that Outlook 2010, like Outlook 2007, will use Microsoft Word for it’s rendering engine. Microsoft made great leaps forward with IE8, and just when I start thinking they deserve a nice pat on the back for embracing standards, they give me another reason to lose faith in them.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Design Technology 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. From those innovations came products, solutions, and even categories that didn’t previously exist. Bright people were inventing and innovating, but nobody was there to monetise their work. August 2007. 4 White, Erin. “

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

For one thing, they lag innovation, rather than lead it: prescriptive IT security guidelines circa 2007 were ignorant of the risks posed by social media. Since technology is a business of invention and innovation, rules will always be out of date.

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

This requires investing in capability development: skills, specialisation, innovation , and so forth. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. The Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2007. It must be a “destination employer” offering both skill and domain knowledge acquisition as well as thought leadership opportunities.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Fisher, 2007. Billsus, 2007. Zapf, 2007. Khan and D. Jain, 2005.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

These are not problem domains that lend themselves to a divide-and-conquer approach, they are domains that require a discover-collaborate-innovate approach. Management Leaders Turn Attention to Followers ” The Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. All together, this means that the problem domain will be complex and dynamic.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

Thus leadership and its derivative characteristics - notably innovation and responsiveness - are the result of calculated, not wanton, risk taking. They compete on cost (through, for example, labour arbitrage or volume discounts) as opposed to differentiation on value (that is, as drivers of innovation or invention.)

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

AWS 160

AWS IoT Internet Internet 160

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. I’m excited to see the new and innovative use cases coming from our customers in the Nordics and across Europe, all enabled by AWS.

AWS 109

AWS Airlines Latency Games 109

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications. For over 15 years, Billy has spoken internationally at conferences and written two books on how to build fast and secure websites.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89