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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support. Kotlin Multiplatform approaches cross-platform mobile development differently from some well known technologies in the space. Networking Hendrix interprets rule set(s)?—?remotely

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. A content delivery network (CDN) is an excellent solution to the problem.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

We can use cloud technologies such as Amazon Kinesis or Azure Stream Analytics for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time, streaming data to get timely insights and react quickly to new information(e.g. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. Streaming Data Model.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Netflix production teams work with a global roster of VFX studios (both large and small) and their artists to create this amazing imagery.

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