The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. The top graph shows both the audio and video bitrate, along with the available network throughput.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

by Astha Singhal (Netflix Application Security) As Netflix continues to create entertainment people love, the security team continues to keep our members, partners, and employees secure. We received a report from a researcher that found a service they didn’t believe should be available on the internet.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The haphazard results may be entertaining, although not quite based in fact. This leverages state-of-the-art open models (such as GLiNER for named entity recognition ) and popular open source libraries such as spaCy and LanceDB (see the code and slides ). RAG provides a way to “ground” answers within a selected set of content.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others. We want to help our teams see larger patterns of incidents so they can improve overall service availability. A healthy Netflix service enables us to entertain the world. But we’re not done.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. In contrast to this “One Graph to Rule Them All” approach, GQLMS leverage GraphQL simply as an enriched API specification for building CRUD applications.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A typical day for a production employee could require using a handful of these applications to entertain our members across the world. We wanted a way to ensure that we can have a consistent user experience while also sharing as much code as possible. We followed the same steps as Hawkins with Storybook and communication channels.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This platform unlocks tremendous business value since product-oriented teams are now free to use the platform to experiment with different product offerings for our global audience, with little to no code changes required. This means we need to distinguish between availability of SKUs and eligibility for SKUs.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications are packaged into a single, lightweight container with their dependencies, typically including the application’s code, customizations, libraries, and runtime environment. Maintaining high availability Kubernetes also makes it easier for applications to scale in response to changing workloads to maintain high availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Coding with statistical software and SQL are my most widely used technical skills. The tooling here is amazing, which made it easy for me to make my models available at scale across the company.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! In the absence of true A/B testing, our analyses rely on using the available data to adjust away spurious correlations between the treatment and the outcome metrics. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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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. An out-of-band mechanism (tcp socket) is used to advertise the available wire protocol versions when connecting to a remote machine, and the lowest common denominator will be used. Enter Google! The little engine that could.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. If that is available, then a positive response is received.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

The “Other” category, at more than 22% of the total, includes respondents from education (3%, combining K12 and higher education), insurance (3%), energy and utilities (2%), media/entertainment (2%), non-profit (2%), consumer products (1%) and other verticals. Microservices aren’t just for the big guys. Footnotes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While we primarily use this for evaluating modifications to our machine learning algorithms, such as what happens when we have a new row selection or ranking algorithm, we can also use it to evaluate any changes in the code used to construct the page, from filtering rules to new row types.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A wide array of features is offered by this provider such as predictive analytics, customer databases, endpoint protection, and automated system management functions which create an enhanced onboarding experience much like on cruise ships where you are surrounded by amenities and entertainment options.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Taking up the example of the entertainment and media industry, Blockchain implication has allowed individuals to exchange money with one another independently without involving any third party. It has not only improved the business function but it has also made the transaction faster.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Taking up the example of the entertainment and media industry, Blockchain implication has allowed individuals to exchange money with one another independently without involving any third party. It has not only improved the business function but it has also made the transaction faster.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Taking up the example of the entertainment and media industry, Blockchain implication has allowed individuals to exchange money with one another independently without involving any third party. It has not only improved the business function but it has also made the transaction faster.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

You see, being told a specific way to code—a specific technique or snippet—that can have some short term value. The book isn’t out until early December, and you should absolute pick up a copy when it’s available. His style of writing is just so pleasant: conversational, informative and entertaining.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While we primarily use this for evaluating modifications to our machine learning algorithms, such as what happens when we have a new row selection or ranking algorithm, we can also use it to evaluate any changes in the code used to construct the page, from filtering rules to new row types.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While we primarily use this for evaluating modifications to our machine learning algorithms, such as what happens when we have a new row selection or ranking algorithm, we can also use it to evaluate any changes in the code used to construct the page, from filtering rules to new row types.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. In pre-war American advertising agencies, the job of a layout artist was simply to place headlines, copy, and images into available space, but that changed after WW2 with an influx of immigrant designers from Europe. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by BLT and Steve Chorney.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. That doesn’t happen in kernel code; the CPU does that on its own. asm goto is a GNU C extension that allows for assembly code to transfer control flow to a limited, known set of labels in C code.

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Tech News Gather

APRIL 18, 2023

Today, mobile apps are no longer just a way of providing information and entertainment but act as an add-on for a company’s brand. In this type of mobile application, the web code is integrated with the native language to create exclusive features and access native APIs that are not available in JavaScript yet.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

I hope you find it largely useful, occasionally illuminating, and maybe even a bit entertaining. This led to wide variation and fragmentation in the C++ support of compilers available to the community. In the meantime, because the draft FAQ might be of general public interest too, here is a copy of that material. Azure, Facebook).

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Tech News Gather

AUGUST 8, 2022

It is because many applications are available to overcome the challenges we face in our lives. Those are mentioned as follows: GoPay – It allows users to perform cashless transactions by scanning QR codes and other different online methods. GoTix – This allows users to book tickets for entertainment shows.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Brody saw typography as a medium for commenting ideas and so should be expressive and entertaining. You can still find copies available on eBay. The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture’ by Paul Gorman is more readily available, as is a compendium of all twenty issues of FUSE. ra, yk, il).

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There are fewer examples and code libraries of the Ember framework. You are not allowed to reuse code in React.js other than for CSS and other JSX code, while Vue JS has inbuilt CSS-HTML code-reusability. It helps developers to simplify and structure the JavaScript code. Yet, they ultimately pick up the speed.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Example: Chatbots, Alexa, Siri Another application of NLP is in the software testing domain where applications are tested in a plain natural language without any coding. Available 24*7, unlike humans the machine does require breaks, leaves, or weekends off and can be made to work around the clock with the same efficiency.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience.

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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. Processing The Color Palette.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. The Code Book by Simon Singh 4 ⁄ 5 A fascinating walk through the history of cryptography! Great starting point!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

So knowing the arsenal of available patterns and what they imply is useful when making the choice of when to use whichpattern. Explore All Available Solutions At Netflix, there were multiple established methods for creating an API, but none perfectly suited our specific use case.

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