The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

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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. I decided to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology (Go Jackets!!)

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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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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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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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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 allows even the smallest companies to think big because it puts technology into their hands that was previously hard to access and too costly to acquire.

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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 Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The chattering classes would have us believe that technology disrupts. By way of example, the technology to enable the sharing economy existed for years, but monetizing everything from spare time to the spare bedroom only became appealing when mortgages went underwater, wages stagnated, and the labor participation rate dropped.

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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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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

I recently came across a box of very old technology tucked away in my basement: PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras and even a couple of old laptops, all over two decades old. There are, of course, several transformative technologies in their nascent stages. Before disposing of something, I try to repurpose it if I can.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, The productivity is there, and will intensify with technologies such as AI and ML; the instrumentation simply doesn't exist to measure it. In this definition, productivity through technology is a deflationary force that makes products more affordable.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2015

We don't equate investing in Microsoft with investing in King Digital Entertainment. Portrait of a slow-growth (non-technology) firm. As technology starts to become more prominent in their industry, they appear to be well prepared to take it on. On the whole, tech investors want exposure to runaway upside, not steady returns.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) New technologies disrupt by creating new behaviours and expectations among its users. Social media is a form of entertainment that shifts people's allocation of their leisure time. But disruptive tech is not a utility.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This technology has brought a revolution in the field of healthcare. Artificial intelligence is one of the emerging technologies that is finding its way in all sectors of industry. While AI has been used for a while now, recent enhancement has made the technology much more innovative and adaptable. Conclusion.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

When you find new ways to measure, you find new ways to innovate. And BizDevOps is not just a buzzword, it’s a holistic journey that focuses on four dimensions – process, structure, technology and culture.”. The very nature of working in tech means we have to constantly reinvent ourselves as technology changes. Don’t fret!”

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React contains a steep learning curve and hence developers are forced to invest a lot of time in learning new technology. 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. . Steep Learning Curve for Developers.

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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. It’s fascinating to read about the different ways our technology-reliant world is vulnerable to attacks. The book sets out to do the same thing and does a pretty good job.

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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. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born. Advances collaboration.

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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 DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations. The Phoenix Project. Author: Gene Kim. A crucial read for anyone in the industry.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

Within 24 hours of last month's post on regulation of technology firms , new anti-trust probes into Google and Apple were reported by the Wall Street Journal. In short, the proposed merger would have yielded everything except for the specific electronic vehicle technology that governments are adamant that auto manufacturers must deliver.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The secret sauce that turns the raw ingredients of experimentation into supercharged product innovation is culture. As discussed in Part 6 , there are experimentation and causal inference focussed data scientists who collaborate with product innovation teams across Netflix. But without a little magic, these basics are still not enough.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! Curious to learn more?

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Powered by Innovation. QuickSight is built on a large number of innovative technologies to get a business user their first insights fast. SPICE is a new technology built by the same team that created technologies such as DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Aurora.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman 4 ⁄ 5 This is a really interesting take on the topic of technology and its influence on the widespread feeling of not having enough time in the day. While most books on the topic place the blame directly on the technology itself, Wajcman digs much deeper.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.). The operating company is, though.

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