The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

These UA campaigns typically feature static creatives, launch trailers, and game review videos on platforms like Google, Meta, and TikTok. To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 14, 2020

Using examples from the evolution of programming languages and a few other tech products, it analyzes some key design factors that let you confidently answer the question, “why will your NewThing succeed, when a lot of things that look like it have failed in the past?”

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video. 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. is the story nearly as thrilling and emotional?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

These insights have shaped the design of our foundation model, enabling a transition from maintaining numerous small, specialized models to building a scalable, efficient system. Post-Action Features : These are details available after an interaction has occurred, such as the specific show interacted with or the duration of the interaction.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

Understanding these elements and how they relate to each other is crucial for tasks such as video summarization and highlights detection, content-based video retrieval, dubbing quality assessment, and video editing. As a result of DTW, the scene headers have timestamps that can indicate possible scene boundaries in the video.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

An example for storing both time and space based data would be an ML algorithm that can identify characters in a frame and wants to store the following for a video In a particular frame (time) In some area in image (space) A character name (annotation data) Pic 1 : Editors requesting changes by drawing shapes like the blue circle shown above.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Part Of: Design Patterns. Designing For The Comfortable Range. We do so by breaking our intent down into a set of available features. A well-designed filter in a well-designed trip planner UI. Vitaly Friedman.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

I showed the iPhone to people at Netflix, as it had excellent quality video playback, but they werent interested. At that time YouTube was primarily very short low quality videos, and Netflix average viewing time was over 30 minutes of high qualityvideo. I use mine most days to watch videos. The code is still up on github.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Below, we discuss how we’ve built upon our previous work of harvesting static images directly from video source files and our computer vision algorithms to produce a set of artwork candidates that covers the major product canvases for the entire content catalog. We call this suite of assisted artwork “The Essential Suite”.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This has been a guiding design principle with Metaflow since its inception. The standard dictionary subscript notation is also available. For convenience, they support the dot-syntax (when possible) for accessing keys, making it easy to access values in a nested configuration.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. They can also take part in the unique design so that visitors browsing your site will immediately recognize it simply by looking at the content.

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DZone

MAY 10, 2023

Every internet user, knowingly or unknowingly, uses a CDN while watching a video, reading a newspaper, or enjoying a TV show. CloudFront CDN and CloudFlare CDN are two popular services available on the market. What Is a CDN? CDN stands for content delivery network.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. Video encoding is essentially a search problem?—?the

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

We had images for products sold on Amazon.com, video files, etc., and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions. As we laid it out in the original S3 press release, we needed a storage service that met the following design criteria:

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. in a video file. Goals Annotation Operations Lets pick an example use case of identifying objects (like trees, cars etc.)

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2020

The ideal team for component design consists of a UX designer and a front-end developer. This allowed for balanced opinions and insights from both the design and implementation perspectives. The design concepts were tested and feedback was requested from the UX enablement guild. reordering of table rows.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

To achieve this, we’ll create a Grail bucket specifically designed to retain data for a duration of 10 years (3,657 days). As you follow along in the video, you’ll notice the ability to determine the day of the week for each transaction and visualize the data in a user-friendly bar chart.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. Time is a critical component of Axion?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

So e ven when you don’t fully understand the exact cause of a crash, you can still view a video of the end of the crashed session to see the exact steps that the affected user took and the exact data they entered. In such cases, the crash can be analyzed only by using the information that’s available on the session details page.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

When Reloaded was designed, we were a small team of developers operating a constrained compute cluster, and focused on one use case: the video/audio processing pipeline. In the diagram below of a typical Cosmos service, clients send requests to a Video encoder service API layer. debian packages).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. By design, Metaflow is a deceptively simple Python library: Data scientists can structure their workflow as a Directed Acyclic Graph of steps, as depicted above. Get started at metaflow.org.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Due to the widespread adoption and rich ecosystem of available PHP libraries, all types of security vulnerabilities can be found in PHP applications.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Simplicity for novice and power users For users who seek quick access to relevant logs without the need to write complex queries, easy filtering capabilities are available from within individual log line details or by adding and selecting fields in the menu bar. This enables you to bookmark and share reoccurring or complex queries.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In the real world, content often differs vastly from the neat, perfectly fitting content presented in designs. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The way we train juniors, whether it’s at university or in a boot camp or whether they train themselves from the materials we make available to them (Long Live the Internet), we imply from the very beginning that there’s a correct answer. I did a video on this topic too: [link].) But it’s more complicated than that.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This feature support required a significant update in the data table design (which includes new tables and updating existing table columns). Data Sharding strategy in elasticsearch is updated to provide low search latency (as described in blog post) Design of new Cassandra reverse indices to support different sets of queries.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. The result is a complete recreation of the user experience in a video-like format. What is session replay? Why session replay matters.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Accelerate cloud migration: How to modernize faster with Dynatrace – video Watch this tutorial and learn hands-on from Lucas Hocker and Kayla Bondy how Dynatrace helps you migrate better to the cloud. AWS and Dynatrace work better together – video Every cloud provider provides different technologies and services.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But to understand if your cloud-based applications, as well as environments they run in, are working as designed, you need to see how every single application component communicates and interacts with the others. Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. Amazon Redshift.

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DZone

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In this blog post, Ilhaan discusses the design and implementation of kubeCDN , a tool designed to simplify geo-replication of Kubernetes clusters in order to deploy services with high availability on a global scale. for a shared document or video stream to reach you. Kubernetes goes worldwide with kubeCDN.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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