The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. I started my career as an application developer with basic familiarity with SQL. You’re in the right place!

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2020

In these two Quality Sense episodes, host, Federico, delves into an entertaining and eye-opening discussion with Alan Richardson, a British consultant also known as “ Evil Tester.” With more than 25 years of experience in testing and development, he offers consultancy and training in agile testing and test automation.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

More development teams across enterprises are adopting new mobile UI frameworks, namely SwiftUI,NET MAUI, and Android’s latest toolkit, Jetpack Compose. This allows developers to focus more of their efforts on innovation and delivering the best user experience to their customers. As people typically spend 4.8

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your work centers around raising levels of abstraction to improve development at scale and creating engineering efficiencies. We create innovative solutions that develop and manage entertainment at scale while helping entertain the world as members find joy in the shows and movies they love.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale. At the conference, our speakers share their unique perspectives on modern developments, immediate challenges, and future prospects of data engineering.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. The weeklong conference brought speakers from across the content, product, and member experience teams to learn about methodological developments and applications in estimating causal effects.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

To mitigate this uncertainty, executives throughout the entertainment industry have always consulted historical data to help characterize the potential audience of a title using comparable titles, if they exist. All models were developed and deployed using metaflow , Netflix’s open source framework for bringing models into production.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. Sources Application developers can expose their domain data in a centralized catalog of Sources. We have provided a Processor SDK to help the advanced users to develop their own processors.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Good web application security starts when the application is being developed. Application security tests can be used to tell developers when they have introduced vulnerabilities into the application they’re building.

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DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Managed app testing leader Testlio recently queried more than 75K client release records, covering a diverse range of industries (including Commerce, Education, Entertainment, Finance, Productivity, Sports, and Travel). For Android, iOS, and other apps, release frequencies vary. billion people.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

by Akshay Garg , Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content. This concept is illustrated in Figure 5 below. Watch out for an upcoming article going into further details of this solution.

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Kovair

JULY 3, 2019

The infotainment and entertainment industry has undergone a phenomenal change with online channels and providing features such as movies and other content on demand. Similarly, The post Continuous Testing in Software Development can Ensure Excellence in Quality appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A design system, such as the one we developed for the Netflix Studio, can help alleviate most of these headaches. A typical day for a production employee could require using a handful of these applications to entertain our members across the world. This investment is repetitive and costly. This would allow for an easy migration.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. One approach that is gaining mind-share within Netflix is the concept of GraphQL microservices (GQLMS) as a backend platform facilitating rapid application development.

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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. That’s why we developed and launched high-quality audio.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The role of standards and open source software Our 200+ million members watch Netflix on a wide variety of devices, from smartphones, to laptops, to TVs and many more, developed by a large number of partners. The Media Systems team at Netflix actively contributes to the development, the maintenance, and the adoption of ISOBMFF.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Example use case: Content Knowledge Graph Our knowledge graph of the entertainment world encodes relationships between titles, actors and other attributes of a film or series, supporting all aspects of business at Netflix. Branched development and deployment is managed via @project , which also isolates events between different branches.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Earlier posts in this series covered the why, what and how of A/B testing, all of which are necessary to reap the benefits of experimentation for product development. There are never any shortcuts when developing and growing culture, and fostering a culture of experimentation is no exception.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Experimentation and causal inference data scientists who work directly with Netflix business units develop deep domain understanding and intuition about the business areas where they work. Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Say we are developing a new way to generate a piece of evidence, such as a trailer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. As data scientists in Partnerships, we work closely with our business development, partner marketing, and partner engagement teams to create the best possible experience of Netflix on every device.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These teams will each receive a $100,000 research grant as a stipend, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) services to support their development efforts, access to new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) APIs, and support from the Alexa team. University of Washington, Seattle: HuskyBot.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The modern HMI is a mix of a car control center with an entertainment system. Digital cockpit and entertainment system. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous. vehicle settings such as suspension, climate control, entertainment system, and so on). (Image by Nissan Motor Company ) ( Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today we have local teams in Hong Kong to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Adam Tornhill offers a new perspective on software development that will change how you view code. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2020

It’s like LiveAid or Lady Gaga’s recent One World: #TogetherAtHome , but for developers. Some of the speakers may be familiar to you, such as Bjarne Stroustrup giving an updated version of his actual TED talk, and Kevlin Henney who is always entertaining and enlightening.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the journey of content-based imagery on the Netflix homepage. Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and and we aim to do it really well.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In this article we talk about one such functional area, High Definition Multimedia Interface ( HDMI ), the challenges it brings in relation to Netflix certification on STBs, and our in-house developed automated and objective testing workflows that help us simplify this process. Why test High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) ?

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The data infrastructure to collect, store, and process data is geared primarily towards developers and IT professionals whereas insights need to be derived by not just technical professionals but also non-technical business users. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Did you grow up playing the classics on your Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Nintendo 64? If you’re like me and love video games and want to go back to simpler times, you can actually build your own entertainment station that contains a mashup of all the best consoles. Are you into video games, because I certainly am.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

By not coupling the concepts of eligibility and availability into a single service, we enable increased developer productivity since each team is able to focus on their core competencies and any change in eligibility does not affect the SKU Platform. How, when, and where people want to be entertained continues to evolve.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Efficient microservices The technique of creating applications using microservices architecture makes it possible to divide an application into smaller, independently deployable services, which simplifies development and maintenance. Just consider the sheer number of people who stream Netflix every night!

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. until today.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. The center decides how to put this information to use. It is not a fallback plan.

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