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. Similar titles In entertainment, it is common to contextualize a new project in terms of existing titles.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health. But sometimes you can have too many metrics, too many graphs, and too many dashboards. Telltale uses a variety of signals from multiple sources to assemble a constantly evolving model of the application’s health: Atlas time series metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! A Type-M error occurs when, given that we observe a statistically-significant result, the size of the estimated metric movement is magnified (or exaggerated) relative to the truth. Are there metrics that can yield a signal faster? What’s the tradeoff of using those?

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The haphazard results may be entertaining, although not quite based in fact. While RAG leverages nearest neighbor metrics based on the relative similarity of texts, graphs allow for better recall of less intuitive connections. RAG provides a way to “ground” answers within a selected set of content.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A typical day for a production employee could require using a handful of these applications to entertain our members across the world. We decided to track the number of uses of each component, the number of installs of the packages themselves, and how many applications were using Hawkins in production as metrics to determine success.

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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. Data scientists can take on any aspect of an experimentation project.

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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. 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. Wednesday?—?December

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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. A key challenge in creating a knowledge graph is entity resolution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love.

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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.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. We’ve had some time to evaluate and explore these metrics, and we're committed to transparently discussing their pros and cons.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is a digital media and content infrastructure provider that powers an ever-growing number of massively popular media and entertainment properties. Infor is a business application provider with more than 90,000 customers and 58 million cloud users.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. There are certain metrics to be considered for a user to have a hassle-free experience. Metrics to monitor during page load include the following: Start and end time. Connection time. Network latency.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We have a company level Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) metric each quarter, specifically around diversity and inclusion. We’ve instituted a more diverse “calendar” and volunteers are educating and even entertaining the company with monthly themed topics on things such as Mexican culture, arts, food and music.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

I hope you find it largely useful, occasionally illuminating, and maybe even a bit entertaining. By objective metrics, notably national body comment volume and defect reports, C++14 and C++17 have been our most stable releases ever, each about 3-4 times better on those metrics than C++98 or C++11.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I'm also monitoring various chatrooms and metrics, and will jump in when needed. . - Getting flame graphs to work in a new environment. Staff ask for help over chat, either to the perfeng chatroom or me directly, or they come visit my desk in F2. It's a good balance.

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VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

Such platforms can analyze network traffic, performance metrics, and subscriber behavior to optimize network capacity allocation, predict and prevent service disruptions, and prioritize traffic during peak usage periods — all of which work together to enhance the customer experience.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. Combined with (delayed) advanced graphics APIs and threading support, WebXR enables critical immersive, low-friction commerce and entertainment on the web. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS. Converging Views.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Proxy metrics, like tracking activities instead of outcomes, coupled with treating IT as cost centre, will kill your transformation.”. You can read more about Tasktop’s work with flow metrics and the development of Tastkop Viz, in Mik’s blog below (we’ll also update the blog with the video of the presentation once it’s available). .

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 28, 2020

I’m helping one company bolster their performance monitoring, so I spent most of this time digging through the data they currently have to see how the metrics they currently have are being collected and jotting down some ideas of things I think are missing. Yesterday was a bit of both. 12:00pm-1:00pm. 1:00pm-4:45pm.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We wait, and we then compare the values of a variety of metrics from Group A to those from Group B. Some metrics will be specific to the given hypothesis. We then compare metrics between the two groups. Here, Group B receives the Upside Down box art. Figure 2: A simple A/B test. There’s a lot of statistics involved as well?

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. To achieve prosocial outcomes, AI model and application developers need to define the metrics that explicitly aim for those outcomes and then measure and report the extent to which they have been achieved.

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