The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

Yet, many are confined to a brief temporal window due to constraints in serving latency or training costs. 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. At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world.

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Tuning Efficiency Latency Strategy 165

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. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes can be complex, which is why we offer comprehensive training that equips you and your team with the expertise and skills to manage database configurations, implement industry best practices, and carry out efficient backup and recovery procedures. Just consider the sheer number of people who stream Netflix every night!

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 117

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. In other cases, it is more convenient to share the results via a low-latency API.

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Systems Media Cache Open Source 235

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. Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Enter Google! Emphasis mine). cores, vs 22Gbps using 1.2

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100