The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

Furthermore, it was difficult to transfer innovations from one model to another, given that most are independently trained despite using common data sources. Yet, many are confined to a brief temporal window due to constraints in serving latency or training costs. At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world.

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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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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Accelerating Innovation. entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time.

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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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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. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

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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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