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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

This scenario underscored the need for a new recommender system architecture where member preference learning is centralized, enhancing accessibility and utility across different models. It facilitates the distribution of these learnings to other models, either through shared model weights for fine tuning or directly through embeddings.

Tuning

Tuning Efficiency Latency Strategy

Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The response schema for the observability endpoint.

Traffic

Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation

Netflix Studio Engineering Overview

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 30, 2020

We combine our entertainment knowledge and our technical expertise to provide innovative technical solutions from the initial pitch of an idea to the moment our members hit play. Free up creative resources to focus on what’s important: producing amazing and entertaining content. link] Why Does Studio Engineering Exist? What’s Next?

Engineering

Engineering Entertainment Logistics Innovation

Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Intelligent Monitoring Every service operator knows the difficulty of alert tuning. By Andrei U., A metric crossed a threshold.

Monitoring

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics

What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Especially as software development continually evolves using microservices, containerized architecture, distributed multicloud platforms, and open-source code. Positive filters are highly effective at blocking attacks but require constant tuning.

Open Source

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet

A Recap of the Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale. This “Enterprise Data Model/Architect Agent” employs generative AI techniques for autonomous enterprise data modeling and architecture. Until next time!

Data Engineering

Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering

Data Mesh?—?A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. Overall Architecture The Data Mesh system can be divided into the control plane (Data Mesh Controller) and the data plane (Data Mesh Pipeline). Please stay tuned!

Processing

Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning

Unbundling the Graph in GraphRAG

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The haphazard results may be entertaining, although not quite based in fact. Also, in place of expensive retraining or fine-tuning for an LLM, this approach allows for quick data updates at low cost. RAG provides a way to “ground” answers within a selected set of content. at Facebook—both from 2020. Does GraphRAG improve results?

Open Source

Open Source Healthcare Database Entertainment

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

Traffic

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy

Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, we’ll define plans and offers, review the legacy architecture and some of its shortcomings, and dig into our new architecture and some of its advantages. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved. A plan is essentially a set of features with a price.

Engineering

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol. Enter Google! Emphasis mine). It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

Network

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment

Working at Netflix 2017

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

You might imagine that at some point we had a major scaling crises, where it looked like we'd fail due to an architectural bottleneck, and engineers worked long nights and weekends to save Netflix from certain disaster. That'd make a great story, but it didn't happen.

Java

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences. — Bradbury Thompson.

Design

Design Media Entertainment Website

What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Dynatrace news.

Engineering

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

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Data Mesh?—?A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix

Unbundling the Graph in GraphRAG

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

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Working at Netflix 2017

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