The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I bring my breadth of big data tools and technologies while Julie has been building statistical models for the past decade. A lot of my learning and training was self-guided until 2016, when a manager at my last company took a chance on me and helped me make the rare transfer from a role in HR to Data Science.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

They’re a chance to bring together employees from all our different disciplines to explore new ideas and experiment with emerging technologies. For this project, we synchronized Netflix content with haptic effects using Immersion Corporation technology. Thanks to all the teams who put together a great round of hacks in 24 hours.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

To mitigate security risks, comply with regulations, and align with good governance requires a coordinated effort among people, processes, and technology. “To meet those challenges,” Stewart explained, “a holistic approach is required that combines cultural transformation between people, processes, and technology.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

AIOps , a term coined by Gartner in 2016, combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination. This means organizations can’t be restricted to a single cloud technology.

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The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 28, 2016

It has been a long year being an advocate of technology and I thought it would be a good idea to share everything that has happened to The Polyglot Developer and all of its networks. The post My Activity Report For 2016 appeared first on The Polyglot Developer. We are approaching the end of the year and it is that time again.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. In fact, these technologies have become so prevalent that anybody who may not know the full scope of the topic may be afraid to ask.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Separately, our invention of Dynamically Optimized ( DO ) encoding helps achieve optimized bitrate-quality tradeoffs depending on the complexity of the content. Choudhury, L. Krasula, S.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

From February 15th to February 17th 2016 I will be at DevNexus 2016 in Atlanta , Georgia. This is a developer conference relating to many different technologies such as Java, Node.js, and the mobile platforms. The post Upcoming Presentation: DevNexus 2016 appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Private synthetic browser monitors use the same ActiveGate technology that our private synthetic HTTP monitors are based on, providing the following benefits: Automatic failover support. LTS, Red Hat server 7 and CentOS server 7 for the execution of private browser monitors; Windows Server 2016 support is coming soon as well.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 15, 2016

There is a MSVC, runtime library patch needed by SQL Server 2016 and without the patch the SQL Server service can simply terminate (crash.) Furthermore, our Smart Setup technology can detect the SQL Server Critical Update when installing a new SQL Server 2016 instance and apply this automatically.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. You can take advantage of this effort packaged in SQL Server 2016. SQL 2016 supports 3X more physical memory than previous versions. – [link].

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John McCalpin

OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm).

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

On September 29, 2016, Amazon announced the Alexa Prize , a $2.5 Teams invited to participate without sponsorship will be announced on December 12, 2016. million university competition to advance conversational AI through voice. We received applications from leading universities across 22 countries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

This became alarmingly clear when the massive series of DDoS attacks hit Dyn in 2016, and much of the websites and applications on the Internet became inaccessible to huge swaths of users across North America and Europe. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet’s address system.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Canada has set forth a bold innovation agenda grounded in entrepreneurship, scientific research, growing small and medium-sized businesses with a focus on environmentally friendly technologies, and the transition to a digital economy. Par Werner Vogels, le 8 décembre 2016.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I've also used and helped develop many other technologies for debugging, primarily perf, Ftrace, eBPF (bcc and bpftrace), PMCs, MSRs, Intel vTune, and of course, [flame graphs] and [heat maps]. This diverse environment has always provided me with interesting things to explore, to understand, analyze, debug, and improve.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The rapid acceleration in technology brought on a new discovery and paradigm. The result is a design for SQL Server 2016 that provides high availability for the most demanding workloads on the latest hardware with minimal impact and scalable for the future. Now disk I/O and CPU capacity were no longer an issue. one without a replica).

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft After a long career working at the leading edge of technology, I retire from full time work on June 3rd 2022. I joined Amazon in October 2016, as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers. What Adrian Did Next?—?Retire Retire Moonrise?—?photo

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. Support of new technologies minimizes the amount of manual work needed. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. H owever, OpenTelemetry is one of the most popular projects in the entire CNCF ecosystem with a lot of support from the entire technology community. . Dynatrace news. Observability, O penTracing , and OpenTelemetry.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. During this time we did do plenty of hard work, rolling out new technologies and major microservice versions, and fixed many problems big and small. Time flies!

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. All across the Nordics, AWS technologies are fostering a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation, helping to grow the next generation of Nordic enterprises.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

With Tel Aviv being the technology capital of Israel, it's the ideal edge server location. The image below shows a significant drop in latency once we've launched the new point of presence in Israel. In fact, latency has been reduced by almost 50%!

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016. In 2016, Dji, a China’s drone company, integrates Myriad2 in its products PHANTOM 4 and Mavic Pro.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Uber : Since 2016, Uber has added several new lines of business to its platform, including Uber Eats, Uber Freight, and Jump Bikes. And now we have some idea what's driving unequal growth in productivity of top-performing firms -- it's how they build and use *their own, proprietary software and other IT/technology.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Add to this the fact that desktop devices have a lifespan between five and eight years, on average, and that the P75 device was sold in 2016. That is, what was the average device in 2016? The answer, shockingly, seems to be "no" — at least not as practised by most sites adopting this technology over the past decade.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. – Cloud. – Agile.

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