The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale. If you are interested in attending a future Data Engineering Open Forum, we highly recommend you join our Google Group to stay tuned to event announcements. Until next time!

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Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 206

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

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. We also added adaptive audio testing in our certification process so that every new certified device can benefit from it.

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Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Introduction and account creation Highlight our value propositions and begin the account creation process. Given the flow and mode, the Orchestration Service can then process the request. Stay tuned for more details on this, as well as more details on the internals of the new SKU Platform in one of our upcoming blog posts.

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Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 145

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. …with a gradual upgrade process across a cluster, we have found that our existing applications do not notice hundred millisecond blips in communication that occur once per week. Enter Google! It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences. Processing The Color Palette.

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Design Media Entertainment Website 136

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

FSD has a sense of purpose, a planning capability, has real time agency and responds to its environment via an ego model, predicting the behavior of pedestrians and other road users, and is being tuned to drive in a very human way, so that other road users interact with it as a predicable normal driver.

Social Media 95

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 95

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

Whenever I paused for too long, ChatGPT would interpret what I said so far as my request and start processing it. There’s a click sound when it starts processing my request, but then I may need to wait a few seconds in silence before hearing a response … maybe it’s only one second or maybe it’s five seconds.

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Internet Internet Entertainment Design 108

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

Instead, it has been a process of continual improvements, by many engineers across the company. ## A Day in the Life (Performance Engineering) What do I actually do all day? For Linux, I've also done tuning, kernel analysis, [gdb], testing of [hist triggers], testing of some perf patches, and contributed a few trivial patches of my own.

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Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. On top of basic font style properties, we can now reliably fine-tune OpenType figures, hyphenation, ligatures, and even kerning. The process which Lubalin established first at Sudler & Hennessey and from 1964 in his own studio is fascinating. Vertigo by Saul Bass.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Brody saw typography as a medium for commenting ideas and so should be expressive and entertaining. Previously only pre-processing tools like LESS and Sass enabled developers to use variables in stylesheets, but now Custom Properties have brought variables natively to CSS. Large preview ). Theming using CSS Custom Properties.

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Design Media Testing Entertainment 117

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 28, 2020

I’ve always sort of mentally tuned in and out of podcasts as I listen to them, and that’s exactly why it works so well to listen to them when I run. It’s the one part of that process that stuck, and it’s been wildly beneficial for me. On strength training days, I’ll listen to some music. 1:00pm-4:45pm.

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Games Entertainment Education Tuning 43

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. But the cloud brought new complexities, such as increasing connections and dependencies.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At Netflix, we seek to entertain the world by ensuring our members find the shows and movies that will thrill them. If country_iso_code doesnt already exist in the fact table, the metric owner only needs to tell DJ that account_id is the foreign key to an `users_dimension_table` (we call this process dimension linking ).

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Analytics Engineering Entertainment Metrics 212