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

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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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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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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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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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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Apica

JULY 1, 2022

And with streaming services increasing all the time, more and more providers are embracing technologies that allow them to provide video content through browsers and a variety of dedicated apps. DASH operates in a similar manner over HTTP, and both formats break videos up into chunks that are encoded at different levels of quality.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Free Online Workshop: Frustrating Design Patterns And How To Fix Them. Free Online Workshop: Frustrating Design Patterns And How To Fix Them. Join us for a free online workshop on Frustrating Design Patterns on Monday, September 27 at 9:00 AM PDT / 6PM CET. With all video recordings & slides. Vitaly Friedman.

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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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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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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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

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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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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DZone

MAY 10, 2023

Every internet user, knowingly or unknowingly, uses a CDN while watching a video, reading a newspaper, or enjoying a TV show. It’s a network of geographically distributed servers and data centers designed to deliver higher performance and high availability of internet content. Content Delivery Network (CDN) is not a new technology.

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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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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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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Responsive design is an approach to design websites such that it responds well on all screen sizes, platforms, and orientations. This approach eliminates the need to design a new set of code for each new device. Screenshot and video recording of a full page. But the question is, how to perform such exhaustive testing?

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

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. Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. Time is a critical component of Axion?

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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

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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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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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ". You can find a list of selected video presentation here. were all at the Forum.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In the real world, content often differs vastly from the neat, perfectly fitting content presented in designs. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

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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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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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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a term that was defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010 according to which, design and development of web pages should be responsive to different screen size, platform, and orientation. Here are the three key components of responsive web design – 1. Testing Responsive Web Design.

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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

MAY 2, 2024

AI for Observability: An Explainer – video In this video, Dynatrace explains why AI is critical to observability. Security by design enhanced by unified observability and security – blog Business spend management company Soldo uses unified observability and security to implement efficient security-by-design and DevSecOps practices.

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