The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Business events: Delivering the best data It’s been two years since we introduced business events , a special class of events designed to support even the most demanding business use cases. Watch Dynatrace Lab video The post OpenPipeline: Simplify access to critical business data appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This is the year we put erroneous behavior [in] and eliminated uninitialized locals in the standard, this is the year that we design-approved reflection for the standard both for C++26 and hopefully they’ll both get in. Thanks again to Nokia for hosting the ISO meeting, and for inviting us all to speak at their conference!

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

by Zhi Li, Kyle Swanson, Christos Bampis, Lukáš Krasula and Anne Aaron Over the past few years, we have been striving to make VMAF a more usable tool not just for Netflix, but for the video community at large. VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

These UA campaigns typically feature static creatives, launch trailers, and game review videos on platforms like Google, Meta, and TikTok. To better guide the design and budgeting of future campaigns, we are developing an Incremental Return on Investment model.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Video 1: Installing extensions from the Hub However, the opposite situation can happen as well. Video 2: Expanding database monitoring according to discovery findings The condition of the databases is one of the most significant factors indicating the health of the whole application. Dynatrace Hub mimics such an experience.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ready-made dashboards and notebooks address this concern by offering pre-configured data visualizations and filters designed for common scenarios like troubleshooting and optimization. An example of this is shown in the video above, where we incorporated network-related metrics into the Kubernetes cluster dashboard.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

New Smashing Workshops on Front-End & Design. New Smashing Workshops on Front-End & Design. You might know it already, but perhaps not yet: we regularly run friendly online workshops around front-end and design. Iris Lješnjanin. 2021-08-11T13:25:00+00:00. 2021-08-11T15:41:39+00:00. Upcoming Live Workshops (Aug–Oct 2021).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video. 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. is the story nearly as thrilling and emotional?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

An example for storing both time and space based data would be an ML algorithm that can identify characters in a frame and wants to store the following for a video In a particular frame (time) In some area in image (space) A character name (annotation data) Pic 1 : Editors requesting changes by drawing shapes like the blue circle shown above.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and audio in codec agnostic container formats and provides features such as audio video synchronization, random access and DRM protection. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In addition, we provide a unified library that enables ML practitioners to seamlessly access video, audio, image, and various text-based assets. Background Match Cutting is a video editing technique. Step 1 We download a video file and produce shot boundary metadata.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit was designed to help you adjust your data and add the proper context, which can be helpful in the observability backend. on this YouTube video created by Henrik: Fluent Bit 3.0

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Part Of: Design Patterns. Designing For The Comfortable Range. A well-designed filter in a well-designed trip planner UI. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-07-14T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-14T14:23:10+00:00. Filters are everywhere.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

Understanding these elements and how they relate to each other is crucial for tasks such as video summarization and highlights detection, content-based video retrieval, dubbing quality assessment, and video editing. As a result of DTW, the scene headers have timestamps that can indicate possible scene boundaries in the video.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. They can also take part in the unique design so that visitors browsing your site will immediately recognize it simply by looking at the content. Conclusion.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

I showed the iPhone to people at Netflix, as it had excellent quality video playback, but they werent interested. At that time YouTube was primarily very short low quality videos, and Netflix average viewing time was over 30 minutes of high qualityvideo. I use mine most days to watch videos. The code is still up on github.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 14, 2020

Using examples from the evolution of programming languages and a few other tech products, it analyzes some key design factors that let you confidently answer the question, “why will your NewThing succeed, when a lot of things that look like it have failed in the past?”

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

by Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Lukas Krasula, Zhi Li, and Pulkit Tandon Introducing the banding artifacts detector developed by Netflix aiming at further improving the delivered video quality Banding artifacts can be pretty annoying. Just a subtle change in the video signal can cause banding artifacts. Banding artifact?

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

To introduce the video part of this blog, here’s a (short) story about silos; does this one sound familiar? And now, the video…. In this short video below– Connecting IT metrics to business KPIs –I offer some practical approaches to BizOps collaboration. Is your organization’s story filled with villains or heroes?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Below, we discuss how we’ve built upon our previous work of harvesting static images directly from video source files and our computer vision algorithms to produce a set of artwork candidates that covers the major product canvases for the entire content catalog. We call this suite of assisted artwork “The Essential Suite”.

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High Scalability

APRIL 27, 2020

At least that’s what I realized the first time I heard Rick Houlihan give his now infamous talk at AWS re:Invent 2018 on Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB. In that talk Rick revealed for the first time the inner arcana of single-table design. Video walkthroughs of every chapter.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Of course, there are a few other bits to consider, but even non-technical people can get started after watching this QuickStart video. I should know; I’m non-technical and made the QuickStart video! This single line of code downloads everything you need, including the Dynatrace Apps Toolkit.

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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. Video encoding is essentially a search problem?—?the

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 20, 2021

” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites. I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.”

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2020

The ideal team for component design consists of a UX designer and a front-end developer. This allowed for balanced opinions and insights from both the design and implementation perspectives. The design concepts were tested and feedback was requested from the UX enablement guild. reordering of table rows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This has been a guiding design principle with Metaflow since its inception. As a central ML and AI platform team, our role is to empower our partner teams with tools that maximize their productivity and effectiveness, while adapting to their specific needs (not the other way around).

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Back in 2010, the UI was static, with limited navigation options and a presentation inspired by displays at a video rental store. Now, the UI is immersive and video-forward, the navigation options richer but less obtrusive, and the box art presentation takes greater advantage of the digital experience.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. in a video file. Goals Annotation Operations Lets pick an example use case of identifying objects (like trees, cars etc.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

These insights have shaped the design of our foundation model, enabling a transition from maintaining numerous small, specialized models to building a scalable, efficient system. Utilizing embeddings The model generates valuable embeddings for members and entities like videos, games, and genres.

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