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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members.

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End-to-end observability provides deep insights into user behavior for British Columbia Lottery Corporation

Dynatrace

People now depend on digital experiences for access to goods, services, and entertainment. As such, the corporation’s mission is to deliver exceptional—and healthy—gambling entertainment experiences. Consequently, organizations need a way to capture and understand user behavior so they can make their services more reliable.

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Celebrating partnerships and excellence with the Dynatrace 2020 Partner Awards

Dynatrace

While we missed seeing our partners in person, networking, socializing, and having fun learning together, the virtual event format catered for four time zones, keynote mainstage, coupled with geo breakouts allowed for a much larger audience than ever before.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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 We share everything attendees need to implement CloudTrail in their own organizations.

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Decision Making at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix was created with the idea of putting consumer choice and control at the center of the entertainment experience, and as a company we continuously evolve our product offerings to improve on that value proposition. How do we deliver a seamless video-forward experience on constrained networks? Are videos better than static images?

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19. Enter Google!

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