The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Some of the areas for which we are actively seeking backend engineers include Streaming & Gaming Technologies, Product Innovation, Infrastructure, and Studio Technologies. 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Subsequent posts will cover the basic statistical concepts underpinning A/B tests, the role of experimentation across Netflix, how Netflix has invested in infrastructure to support and scale experimentation, and the importance of the culture of experimentation within Netflix.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We are committed to meeting our customers’ increasing needs for capacity and for powerful AWS services that eliminate the heavy lifting of the underlying IT infrastructure -- allowing them to focus more of their precious resources on their core business. Enterprise Companies – Unilever , ATOC , National Rail Enquiries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. The changes are administered by the regular git pull request flow and guarded by the validation infrastructure. For the longest time, Netflix had three plans (basic/standard/premium) with a single 30-day free trial offer at signup.

Mobile 218

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2021

As consumers migrate online to shop, entertain themselves, and perform banking activities, they are now more at risk from account takeover, identity theft, and privacy abuses. Do banks have the infrastructure, resources, and expertise to make a solid digital transformation? Is security a barrier to digitally transforming?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

by Astha Singhal (Netflix Application Security) As Netflix continues to create entertainment people love, the security team continues to keep our members, partners, and employees secure. We have collectively rewarded over $100,000 for over 100 valid bugs in that time.

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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. Legitimate concerns about security (how does this integrate with our IAM infrastructure to enforce row-level access controls within the database?)

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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. Instead, we provide them with delightfully usable ML infrastructure that they can use to manage a project’s lifecycle. Wednesday?—?December

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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. Instead, we provide them with delightfully usable ML infrastructure that they can use to manage a project’s lifecycle. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Infrastructure change events. A healthy Netflix service enables us to entertain the world. Telltale uses a variety of signals from multiple sources to assemble a constantly evolving model of the application’s health: Atlas time series metrics. Regional traffic evacuations. Mantis real-time streaming data.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Behind the scenes, Netflix infrastructure has already kicked into gear, finding the fastest way to deliver your chosen content with great audio and video quality. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a company, we aim to be curious, and to truly and honestly understand our members around the world, and how we can better entertain them. We are also open minded, knowing that great ideas can come from unlikely sources. A great example is the testing we do to find just the right text copy for every aspect of the product.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. SPICE is cloud-native, which means that customers don’t need to provision, manage, or scale infrastructure manually.

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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. We come from many academic backgrounds, including economics, radiotherapy, neuroscience, applied mathematics, political science, and biostatistics. Each company has their own spin on data scientist responsibilities.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Because of this flexibility, businesses may choose the infrastructure that best meets their needs. This portability ensures that your applications remain consistent and operational, regardless of where they are deployed.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. Thereby streamlining their database infrastructure without any major complications or stress accompanying doing the same effectively resulting in fewer worries when setting out sail onboard!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling HDMI Testing Here are some of the challenges associated with HDMI testing on STBs: The need to physically obtain and replicate different home entertainment setups of TVs and Home Theater Systems (HDMI topologies). Time spent in manually changing these topologies between and during different tests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How, when, and where people want to be entertained continues to evolve. With these types of continued investments in infrastructure, the Growth Engineering team is able to build a solid foundation for future innovations that will allow us to continue to deliver the best possible experience for our members.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

Rob Hirschfeld of RackN had this perspective on the impact of AI on his domain of infrastructure automation. We are going to have to get used to the idea that the entities we are interacting with, whether via email, social media, news and entertainment, or on the roads are increasingly AI operated, and we won’t be able to tell.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past. If you are interested in helping us solve these types of problems and helping entertain the world, please take a look at some of our open positions on the Netflix jobs page.

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VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

Unfortunately, many organizations lack the tools, infrastructure, and architecture needed to unlock the full value of that data. Processing such high data volumes requires robust infrastructure and scalable architecture designed for high performance and high availability. In a world where 2.5

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Combined with (delayed) advanced graphics APIs and threading support, WebXR enables critical immersive, low-friction commerce and entertainment on the web. position: sticky. CSS color().

Media 145

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past. If you are interested in helping us solve these types of problems and helping entertain the world, please take a look at some of our open positions on the Netflix jobs page.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past. If you are interested in helping us solve these types of problems and helping entertain the world, please take a look at some of our open positions on the Netflix jobs page.

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Metrics Testing Government Systems 100

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I’ve always wondered why this is: what it is about developers and their experience that tends to make them react to the idea of “root cause is a myth” like an immune system seeking out a foreign agent, while operations engineers tend to at least entertain the idea?

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Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Ranga Muvavarirwa—VP, Entertainment Technology, Comcast, and Jessica Sant, Senior Manager, Engineering, Comcast Interactive Media—were on hand to shatter that perception, providing insights into the earlier days of the company’s transformation. ” Vilji Kavanal, Product Manager.

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Apica

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The ability to validate infrastructure scaling and systems resilience is a key result of using Apica’s test platform. Apica’s load test platform evaluated the site’s performance before release with 10+ million viewers starting streaming in same second.

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Apica

MARCH 31, 2022

The dashboard view tells you the health of the services that we have monitored, and how the health of the entire infrastructure is doing at a glance. He added, “The alert framework is really good and then the reporting and visualizations that you get from the dashboards are good.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The many disaster scenarios and outcomes allow chaos engineers to better model what happens to applications and microservices, which gives them increasing intelligence to share with developers to perfect software and cloud-native infrastructure. The history of chaos engineering. Netflix pioneered chaos engineering out of necessity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Subsequent posts will go into more details on the statistics of A/B tests, experimentation across Netflix, how Netflix has invested in infrastructure to support and scale experimentation, and the importance of the culture of experimentation within Netflix. See here for Part 1: Decision Making at Netflix. Let’s say?—?this

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O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2021

We need a new paradigm for the future of technical infrastructure for our homes and offices. Our home infrastructure was originally communal. Most of these technologies didn’t go anywhere, but they were an attempt at making the infrastructure around us adapt to the people who were in the space. The Wrong Model.

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