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

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. The secret sauce that turns the raw ingredients of experimentation into supercharged product innovation is culture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Curious to learn more?

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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

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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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

MARCH 2, 2021

Our experimentation and causal inference focused data scientists help shape business decisions, product innovations, and engineering improvements across our service. We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. Roxy Du (Product Innovation) [Roxy D.]

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change. This centralization of eligibility logic in the SKU Eligibility Service also enables innovation in different parts of the product that have traditionally been ignored. A SKU Platform that enables product innovation with minimal engineering involvement.

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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. Powered by Innovation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Accelerating Innovation. entertainment?—?and For more background on the signup funnel and Growth Engineering’s role in the signup funnel, please read our initial post on the topic: Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Accelerating The primary focus of this post will be the top of the signup funnel. the background image shown above).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol. Enter Google! Emphasis mine).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While a diverse set of algorithms working together can produce a great outcome, innovating on such a complex system can be difficult. To this end, we developed tools that compared real pages computed by our live production system with that of our simulators, both in terms of the final output and the features involved in our models.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Consider healthcare: although medical costs are much higher today in nominal terms than they were in 1970, they are much lower in real terms when adjusted both for monetary inflation and medical-technological innovation. Economic subsidies are a common practice, typically sponsored by governments to protect or advance economic development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While a diverse set of algorithms working together can produce a great outcome, innovating on such a complex system can be difficult. To this end, we developed tools that compared real pages computed by our live production system with that of our simulators, both in terms of the final output and the features involved in our models.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

While a diverse set of algorithms working together can produce a great outcome, innovating on such a complex system can be difficult. To this end, we developed tools that compared real pages computed by our live production system with that of our simulators, both in terms of the final output and the features involved in our models.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2015

We don't equate investing in Microsoft with investing in King Digital Entertainment. Their strong market position and simple balance sheet will give them the patina of being a "tech ready" firm, positioned to be leaders of tech innovation that can further improve their grip on the market. We get this exposure through equity capital.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time. An exploratory investment is generally developed rapidly and deployed frequently to accelerate the rate of exploration.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Strong AI is considered to be the biggest threat to humans by many scientists including Stephen Hawking who stated that: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…. Machine learning focuses on the development of algorithms that can analyze data and have the capability to make predictions.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React JS is one of the most common web app frameworks favoured by many developers due to its easy learning curve and reusability. Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Why do Developers look for Alternatives to React JS?

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To wit: it is a little bit shocking that the highest paid public employee is a professional entertainer , rather than a professional administrator or legislator. One defense is that community schooling develops social interaction skills. School sports is big business at the high school and collegiate levels.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

When you find new ways to measure, you find new ways to innovate. You can read more about Tasktop’s work with flow metrics and the development of Tastkop Viz, in Mik’s blog below (we’ll also update the blog with the video of the presentation once it’s available). . After using a story about a big U.S. Tasktopians in action.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Accelerates innovation.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

The winners will be those that view their business from the eyes of their customers and understand that fast-paced innovation is the key to long-term growth. Digitalization starts with having the right mindset: namely one aimed at creating innovative digital experiences. The digital era is here.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. The Principles of Product Development Flow. The Phoenix Project.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. Lies was an Ocean’s Eleven-esque story with a blistering pace that (in my opinion) cared less about developing the characters than it did about having fun. This isn’t one of them.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 4 ⁄ 5 How We Got to Now builds off the ideas from Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From and further hammers home the point that good ideas do not come from lightbulb moments but from what Johnson calls the Hummingbird Effect.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Identity and Data Security for Web Development by Jonathan LeBlanc & Tim Messerschmidt 4 ⁄ 5 Pretty solid introduction to the topic. She doesn’t avoid discussing the difficulties faced in Africa, but she always follows that discussion with some examples of people innovating in incredibly creative ways to overcome these challenges.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.). The operating company is, though.

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