The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. (Refer to our recent overview for more details). However, as we expanded our set of personalization algorithms to meet increasing business needs, maintenance of the recommender system became quite costly.

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Tuning Efficiency Latency Strategy 163

Percona

MARCH 28, 2025

PostgreSQL is, without a doubt, one of the most popular open source databases in the world. Why? Well, there are many reasons, but if I had to pick just one, I’d say its extensibility. PostgreSQL isnt just a database; its an ecosystem of extensions that can transform it to tackle any upcoming challenges.

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Open Source Database 81

DZone

MARCH 28, 2025

If youre experiencing Java performance problems, where do you start looking for solutions? Is GC tuning really worthwhile? How do you analyze the GC logs to identify and fix bottlenecks? This article looks at some real-life success stories, where organizations were able to achieve dramatic performance gains simply by tweaking GC.

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