The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We built Axion primarily to remove any training-serving skew and make offline experimentation faster. 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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

And an O’Reilly Media survey indicated that two-thirds of survey respondents have already adopted generative AI —a form of AI that uses training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries. AI requires more compute and storage. AI performs frequent data transfers.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Employee training in cybersecurity best practices and maintaining up-to-date software and systems are also crucial. High demand Sudden spikes in demand can overwhelm systems that are not designed to handle such loads, leading to outages. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data. In semi-supervised anomaly detection models, only a set of benign examples are required for training.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This model of computing has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it offers a number of benefits, including cost savings, flexibility, scalability, and increased efficiency. I'm sorry, but as a large language model trained by OpenAI, I don't have the ability to browse the internet or keep up-to-date with current events.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs. We have developed a large-scale GPU training cluster based on Ray , which supports multi-GPU / multi-node distributed training. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

On the other hand, very few data scientists feel strongly about the nature of the data warehouse, the compute platform that trains and scores their models, or the workflow scheduler. 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.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

Paco Nathan : Frankly, I’d feel a lot more comfortable sending my kids off to school in a self-driving bus if the machine learning models hadn’t been trained solely by Google’s proprietary data. Department of Homeland Security has designated 16 sectors of infrastructure as 'critical', and 14 of them depend on GPS.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

Runtime application self-protection is a security design pattern for embedding web application protection directly into an application or application runtime environment. Rather than using a trained model to predict behavior, RASP watches an application’s runtime, studying the application’s task execution to detect attacks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

These include ETL pipelines, ML model training workflows, batch jobs, etc. As Big data and ML became more prevalent and impactful, the scalability, reliability, and usability of the orchestrating ecosystem have increasingly become more important for our data scientists and the company.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Much of the ML literature focuses on model training, evaluation, and scoring. Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering. At the same time, we kept the design open enough to allow future extensibility. Incredible!” Thus, we didn’t build all the modules completely.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 22, 2024

What is Maestro Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines. The transition was seamless, and Maestro has met our design goals by handling our ever-growing workloads.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We partnered with Netflix’s Developer Experience (DevEx) team to build out documentation, training materials, and tutorials for developers. Our goal was to design a GraphQL schema that was reflective of the domain itself, not the database model. Embracing a collaborative schema design approach was essential to achieving this goal.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The artwork generated by this pipeline is used to augment the artwork typically sourced from design agencies. Through testing we have learned that with proper checks and human curation in place, assisted artwork candidates can perform on par with agency designed artwork. We call this suite of assisted artwork “The Essential Suite”.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. When Reloaded was designed, we focused on a single use case: converting high-quality media files (also known as mezzanines) received from studios into compressed assets for Netflix streaming.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons.

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High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Check out Educative.io's bestselling new 4-course learning track: Scalability and System Design for Developers. Who's Hiring?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The graphicsurf.com team wanted to contribute to the ongoing fight against COVID-19 and has designed a set of vector icons dedicated to the Coronavirus, or specifically, COVID-19. Anthony Tyschenko and Dennis Machuca took part in the design of the icons. A Little About The Design Progress. Great Balance And Scalability.

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High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Check out Educative.io's bestselling new 4-course learning track: Scalability and System Design for Developers. Who's Hiring?

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High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. Since the needs of data-intensive applications are diverse, it is useful to have a general-purpose compute layer that can handle different types of tasks from IO-heavy data processing to training large models on GPUs. Software Architecture.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Reduced cost.

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High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

On the other hand, very few data scientists feel strongly about the nature of the data warehouse, the compute platform that trains and scores their models, or the workflow scheduler. 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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For the people perspective, the requirement for Quality and Engineering managers and VPs who want to materially improve their systems and performance engineering approach is to make time for learning new tools and skills (technology), automating toil (out of their processes), and delivering trainings (to product teams).

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High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. In Essilen Research's video series on tech hiring, you'll learn the secrets that the best companies use to hire the best engineers, developers and designers.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether in analyzing A/B tests, optimizing studio production, training algorithms, investing in content acquisition, detecting security breaches, or optimizing payments, well structured and accurate data is foundational. The incremental processing solution (IPS) described here has been designed to address the above problems.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. And the final paragraph of section 3.9.4

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High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

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Education 105

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. In Essilen Research's video series on tech hiring, you'll learn the secrets that the best companies use to hire the best engineers, developers and designers.

Education 108

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High Scalability

MARCH 17, 2020

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Education 105

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High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc. Learn how to train interviewers so everyone's on the same page.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. This also aids scalability down the line. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. Additionally.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.) Watching every moment of content to find the best frames and select them manually takes a lot of time, and this approach is often not scalable. Intro to AVA Discovery View AVA is an internal tool that surfaces still frames from video content.

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