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Part 1: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At Netflix, we seek to entertain the world by ensuring our members find the shows and movies that will thrill them. Metric definitions are often scattered across various databases, documentation sites, and code repositories, making it difficult for analysts and data scientists to find reliable information quickly.

Analytics

Analytics Engineering Entertainment 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. Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

Open Source

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet

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. For example, a latency increase is less critical than error rate increase and some error codes are less critical than others.

Monitoring

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics

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

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.

Open Source

Open Source Entertainment Database Healthcare

Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

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.

Engineering

Engineering Network Media Entertainment

Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

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.

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. Once the whole fleet has turned over, the code for the now unused version(s) can be removed. The ability to rapidly deploy new versions of Pony Express significantly aided development and tuning of congestion control.

Network

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment

What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

FSD has a sense of purpose, a planning capability, has real time agency and responds to its environment via an ego model, predicting the behavior of pedestrians and other road users, and is being tuned to drive in a very human way, so that other road users interact with it as a predicable normal driver.

Social Media

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment

Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

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).

Virtualization

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. On top of basic font style properties, we can now reliably fine-tune OpenType figures, hyphenation, ligatures, and even kerning. SVG includes other properties which fine-tune aspects of a stroke. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by BLT and Steve Chorney. Large preview ).

Design

Design Media C++ Technology

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Brody saw typography as a medium for commenting ideas and so should be expressive and entertaining. By fine-tuning my alpha channel values and colour stop points, I can create the perfect look to fit my design. Widely spaced letters became a familiar part of Brody’s designs for The Face. ra, yk, il).

Design

Design Media Testing Entertainment

What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience.

Engineering

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure

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. Left: Monochrome. ra, yk, il).

Design

Design Media Entertainment Website

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Part 1: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix

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

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Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

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

Unbundling the Graph in GraphRAG

Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral

What is chaos engineering?

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

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