The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. Operational Efficiency: The majority of the changes require metadata configuration files and library code changes, usually taking days of testing and service release to adopt the updates.

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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

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. After further testing, the researcher found a remote code execution that we then rewarded and remediated with a higher priority.

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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. Variances in sound can be extremely subtle, but the impact on how the viewer perceives a scene differently is often measurable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The packaging step aims at producing such a codec-agnostic sequence of bytes, called packaged format, or container format, which can be manipulated, to some extent, without a deep knowledge of the coding format. Figure 1?—?Simplified That is where standards play a key role. Figure 2?—?Illustrating Brands are nested.

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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. Simply pull down the defined Docker base image and run it with the appropriate database connection string.

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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. A healthy Netflix service enables us to entertain the world. Alerts triggered by our alerting platform. Different signals have different levels of importance to an application’s health.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and First, the fields can be coded by hand. The following fields are supplied by application code. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Adam Tornhill offers a new perspective on software development that will change how you view code. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The modern HMI is a mix of a car control center with an entertainment system. Digital cockpit and entertainment system. With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. vehicle settings such as suspension, climate control, entertainment system, and so on).

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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.

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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 shape facilitates code reuse at the UI layer as well as the service layers. The world is constantly changing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! XP provides a framework that allows engineering teams to define sets of test treatment experiences in their code, and then use these to configure an experiment. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling HDMI Testing Here are some of the challenges associated with HDMI testing on STBs: The need to physically obtain and replicate different home entertainment setups of TVs and Home Theater Systems (HDMI topologies). Time spent in manually changing these topologies between and during different tests.

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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. Making container deployment simpler One of Kubernetes’ primary use cases is deploying containerized apps.

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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. Once the whole fleet has turned over, the code for the now unused version(s) can be removed. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP! Enter Google! The little engine that could.

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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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Enprowess

AUGUST 24, 2021

Code formatting. With semantic UI react libraries, developers can easily build superb and responsive web designs with syntactical and clear code. This way, developers can code quickly and efficiently by using reusable and faster coding methods. Additionally, you no longer have to code from scratch while using Tailwind UI.

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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2020

Not only do they have their day-to-day jobs and lives to contend with, they must also entertain their children 24/7, support their studies, keep them fit and healthy, and much more I’m sure. Kavitha said, “Nothing beats cheap entertainment, especially with some fine motor skills practice and a built-in kitchen science lesson!”.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Monitoring of page load time, page length, response time, and request code can also be observed with the traditional HTTP monitoring. If that is available, then a positive response is received.

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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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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

Starting with raw data in a file, and some idea of what outcome he wanted, ChatGPT was able to provide guidance and code to paste into the notebook that did a good job. Chai Atreya of Alteryx did an impressive live demo of using ChapGPT as a guide to developing some analysis in a Python notebook.

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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. His style of writing is just so pleasant: conversational, informative and entertaining. But what’s more important is thinking about the underlying philosophy and the values that guide those decisions.

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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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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. Combined with (delayed) advanced graphics APIs and threading support, WebXR enables critical immersive, low-friction commerce and entertainment on the web. Compression Streams.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time. But disruptive tech is not a utility. In recent years the trend has been toward renting that capability rather than owning it.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

You get the drift — more and more people are using smartphones every day for both essentials and entertainment. It’s a low-code platform where you can write your tests in simple English and the platform’s AI capability translates it into code. As per Data Reportal , there are over 5.27 Picture credit: Mabl.

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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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Nick Desaulniers

JANUARY 18, 2019

We want to make sure that we release a high quality implementation, so it’s important to test the new patches on real code and not just small test cases. In this post, we’ll take a look at using C-Reduce , a multithreaded code bisection utility for C/C++, to help narrow done a reproducer for a real compiler bug.

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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. Elaborating: Re (a): Most major C++20 features have been implemented in essentially their current draft standard form in at least one shipping compiler, and in most cases actually used in production code (i.e., Azure, Facebook).

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

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