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. Some titles (e.g.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Meenakshi Jindal Overview At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. Cassandra Table Design Based on the asset type, first time buckets are fetched which depends on the creation time of assets.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) Juan Diego Rodríguez 2023-10-16T13:00:00+00:00 2023-10-16T16:23:46+00:00 Gatsby is a true Jamstack framework. That includes media files, like images, video, and audio. Which plugins should be used for certain types of media?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

As a result, they may fail to consider the importance of full-stack observability, dashboards, AI-driven automation, application security, and other factors when designing their security operations strategy. What is a security operations center? Dynatrace immediately identified Log4Shell and the first attempted attack patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 30, 2023

What data would you like to have if you were designing an asset suite? The role of promotional artwork Great promotional media helps viewers discover titles they’ll love. For example, certain traditional art styles that are effective in traditional media like movie posters might not translate well to the Netflix UI in your living room.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 26, 2025

A traditional WordPress website will not engage users unless it meets all three essential criteria: mobile-friendliness, intuitive design, and strong user engagement capabilities. From dynamic UI/UX to seamless social media integration, businesses must adapt their web presence to meet Gen Zs evolving expectations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. We call this system Cosmos.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The complexity of these factors makes it difficult to determine the best creative strategy for upcoming titles. To improve it, we decided to invest in creating a Media Understanding Platform , which enables us to extract meaningful insights from media that we can then surface in our creative tools.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. DRM is a collection of access control technologies that are used for protecting the copyrights of digital media such as movies and music tracks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Consolidating on one methodology could be a challenge, as we may face different design or data constraints or optimization goals. Within-country quasi design to measure the impact of TV ads in France and Germany. Geographic units are defined based on the lowest level of media buying capability. However we are not done yet!

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

The implication here is that we’ve now rendered any font-loading strategies completely ineffective: font-display can’t work if there are no fonts; the Font Loading API is useless if there are no fonts. not replacement —the current method would remain fully functional and valid) non-blocking loading strategy.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. Files everywhere!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost intensive and not always fruitful. Digital touchpoint outage: There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint to simply not load, to be unavailable. I tend to lean towards social media for evaluating this. I want to start with a hard fail.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

This creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional software development approaches simply weren’t designed to handle. With the advent of generative AI, therell be significant opportunities for product managers, designers, executives, and more traditional software engineers to contribute to and build AI-powered software.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It became increasingly clear that they would need a new strategy. Designing an effective AI learning path that worked with the Head First methodwhich engages readers through active learning and interactive puzzles, exercises, and other elementstook months of intense research and experimentation.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Much of the code ChatGPT was trained on implemented those dark patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. The Problem With Traditional Approaches. Content Marketing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost-intensive and not always fruitful, which makes having an excellent DX more crucial than ever. There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint simply falling offline. consumers have tried new brands or outlets, diminishing the loyalty factor. Digital touchpoint outage.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Enhanced Media Delivery. Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the update: Improve architectural design to eliminate SSO bottleneck risk [In progress] Security and access are critical aspects of our architecture, and as such, there are many areas we’re looking to improve. This includes email, a phone number (or click-to-talk), and even social media such as Twitter. Hopefully never.)

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. How Eye-Tracking Works.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers. In this article, we’ll look at ways to make an existing design dyslexia-friendly. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

— Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. If we have a responsive design, we will want the image to stay within the margins of the container, using the CSS below for that: img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; }. The change of design.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A telecom giant changing its outsourcing strategy to negotiate better terms with its service partners. It will equip you with everything you need to work with the customer to quickly find and fix their bottlenecks and finetune their investment strategy. A leading U.S healthcare leader doubling its feature velocity. Co-Marketing.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. User preferences were downgraded in algorithmic importance in favour of more profitable content.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. It’s unclear whether this was a lack of imagination or a kind of “ strategy tax.” It’s not our data.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. It’s best to make it an integral part of the site’s design DNA!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. For instance, the way the website is described in search engine result pages or the way people talk about the website on social media; it is all part of the user experience. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Tools are only the first step; the real work comes after.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. The CSS media query version of Save Data mentioned above. Other User Preference Signals.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design. The Art of SEO.

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Gtmetrix

JULY 31, 2023

We’ve outlined the importance and basics of image optimization for designers in another article. Now, discover more strategies to make image optimization an integrated process in your project. Image optimization should be integrated in your team’s workflow and processes.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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