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. To stay up to date on our work, follow the Netflix Tech Blog , and if you are interested in joining us, we are currently looking for new stunning colleagues to help us entertain the world!

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the second post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. See here for Part 1: Decision Making at Netflix. There’s a lot of statistics involved as well?—?how

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 28, 2021

That person grew up dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. Upon graduation, they received an offer from Netflix to become an analytics engineer, and pursue their lifelong dream of orchestrating the beautiful synergy of analytics and entertainment. Pretty straightforward, right?!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Then I will describe various types of security products that can be used for web application security including some innovations that Dynatrace has recently introduced. Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. WAF appliances have seen little innovation during the past four years.”.

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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. These considerations are key in informing subsequent lines of research and innovation.

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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. Are these business silos slowing down the rate of change and innovation? Is security a barrier to digitally transforming?

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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.

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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. In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?

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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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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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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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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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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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 1, 2018

For those who aren't familiar, Alexa Prize teams use customer feedback to advance several areas of conversational AI, with the grand challenge being a socialbot that can engage coherently for 20 minutes in a fun, high-quality conversation on popular topics such as entertainment, sports, technology, and fashion.

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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 Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Selling all forms of entertainment - on different media, on different frequencies, for different prices - is even more interesting. Today, it is achieved by selling entertainment (revenue from selling services that fill the passive time of individuals). On the plus side, tech firms have to invest for invention and innovation.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Application Performance Management (APM) is a maturing field, full of innovative vendors. Users of APM tools thus have a range Read More. The post Making the Switch to Apica Synthetic Monitoring appeared first on Apica.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

Not to mention that, just like the PDA and phone manufacturers mentioned above, the pioneers and early innovators didn’t survive long enough to reap the full benefits of the space maturing. As the rate of change of capabilities in the laptop slowed, getting a new laptop became less of an event and more of a pain in the ass.

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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. Streaming entertainment is not a value proposition, it is a utility proposition.

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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. 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 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 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. 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

While a diverse set of algorithms working together can produce a great outcome, innovating on such a complex system can be difficult. 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 Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Application Performance Management (APM) is a maturing field, full of innovative vendors. Users of APM tools thus have a range of choices. In this article, APM users share what led them to switch. The post Making the Switch to Apica Synthetic Monitoring appeared first on Apica.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable. As machines do not get bored and don’t require entertainment. Artificial intelligence is one of the emerging technologies that is finding its way in all sectors of industry.

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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. There is also $1,200,000,000,000 in student loans , a debt market that, like all fixed income markets, has an insatiable appetite for growth.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

When you find new ways to measure, you find new ways to innovate. 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.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Preact lacks innovation and essentially mimics React. has proven stats that make it a master in industries like Arts, Games, Health, entertainment, and many firms. . Preact only permits you to use ES6 class and stateless elements. Preact doesn’t care about the React propTypes. Preact Vs. React. KB, whereas Preact is just 3 KB.

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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. Williams book is an example of why the pop-sci genre became so popular in the first place—it’s well-written, well-researched, engaging and entertaining. This isn’t one of them.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. Accelerates innovation. Increases resiliency and reliability. Advances collaboration.

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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. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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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 Phoenix Project. Author: Gene Kim. For more information, visit: [link].

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

It takes quite a while for a society to figure out the consequences of its innovations and the price it is paying directly or indirectly for the benefits it enjoys, hence regulation lags commercial innovation for a very long time.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

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. Very well worth the read if for no other reason than to make us reconsider what passes as “innovation” in the west.

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