DZone

JANUARY 19, 2022

When you're happy or excited, the chemical is released into your system. The addition of gamification to your program does nothing to improve its performance; rather, it just enriches the user experience by making it more entertaining and rewarding for the user. In general, video games are considered to be dopamine-releasing products.

Entertainment 245

Entertainment Mobile Games Programming 245

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. We needed a system that could manage hundreds to one-day thousands of workstations. To meet that demand, we need to attract the world’s best artistic talent.

Entertainment 307

Entertainment Storage Open Source Hardware 307

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

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. “A lot has changed and it’s a lot better now that we have a detailed view of how our players behave in the system.”

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Entertainment Analytics Healthcare Games 237

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

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. Pretty straightforward, right?!

Healthcare 209

Healthcare Entertainment Analytics Programming 209

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 285

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Streaming & Gaming Technologies ( [link] ) You are a distributed systems engineer working on product backend systems that support streaming video and/or mobile & cloud games. Passion for large data sets, APIs, access & identity management, or delivering backend systems that enable mobile and cloud gaming is a big plus.

Engineering 208

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 208

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. We covered a wide range of topics including difference-in-difference estimation, double machine learning, Bayesian AB testing, and causal inference in recommender systems among many others.

Entertainment 227

Entertainment Best Practices Innovation Testing 227

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. This article gives an overview of the system. As a result, today we define Data Mesh as a general purpose data movement and processing platform for moving data between Netflix systems at scale.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 273

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The importance of factors such as price, safety, convenience, change fees, loyalty points, entertainment – the list can be very long – varies from one customer to the next, and may even change from visit to visit. I lost an entire day due to an IT system problem that nobody noticed. The unresponsive button problem has now been fixed.).

Airlines 264

Airlines Social Media Entertainment Transportation 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The importance of factors such as price, safety, convenience, change fees, loyalty points, entertainment – the list can be very long – varies from one customer to the next, and may even change from visit to visit. I lost an entire day due to an IT system problem that nobody noticed. The unresponsive button problem has now been fixed.).

Airlines 246

Airlines Social Media Entertainment Transportation 246

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. A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024.

Data Engineering 206

Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 206

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The haphazard results may be entertaining, although not quite based in fact. The various flavors of RAG borrow from recommender systems practices, such as the use of vector databases and embeddings. Let’s revisit the point about RAG borrowing from recommender systems. Does GraphRAG improve results?

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Open Source Healthcare Database Entertainment 125

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

by Akshay Garg , Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content.

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Entertainment Engineering Technology Technology 311

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

These metrics include measures of member engagement with Netflix: are the ideas we are testing helping our members to choose Netflix as their entertainment destination on any given night? In all cases, we also look at more general metrics that aim to capture the joy and satisfaction that Netflix is delivering to our members.

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Testing Entertainment Metrics Social Media 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. The Marriott data breach, in which one of its reservation systems had been compromised and hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, were stolen. What is web application security? million Americans, 15.2

Open Source 261

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

by Astha Singhal (Netflix Application Security) As Netflix continues to create entertainment people love, the security team continues to keep our members, partners, and employees secure. The system had significant issues that we were grateful to hear about so we could retire the system.

Entertainment 166

Entertainment Programming Internet Internet 166

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. Teams can opt in to alerting via Slack, email, or PagerDuty (all powered by our internal alerting system).

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 219

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF) is the key packaging standard in the entertainment industry as recently recognized with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). That is where standards play a key role. We’re hiring! Please contact Anne Aaron for more info.

Technology 190

Technology Technology Open Source Media 190

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. One of the earliest examples of such systems was introduced in the 1986 Buick Riviera. Nick Babich & Gleb Kuznetsov.

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Design Entertainment Mobile Automotive 125

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 want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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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Database Entertainment Infrastructure Best Practices 205

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.

AWS 164

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Michael Feathers explores various scaling strategies in light of research about human cognition and systems cohesion. Watch " Next Architecture ". Choices of scale.

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 89

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling HDMI Testing Here are some of the challenges associated with HDMI testing on STBs: The need to physically obtain and replicate different home entertainment setups of TVs and Home Theater Systems (HDMI topologies). Time spent in manually changing these topologies between and during different tests.

Media 169

Media Testing Entertainment Virtualization 169

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and Let’s put it all together and review the system interaction diagram. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the journey of content-based imagery on the Netflix homepage.

Engineering 172

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 172

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Let’s take a deeper look at the architecture, protocols, and systems involved. The world is constantly changing.

Engineering 145

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. Some of the most successful startups in the world—including 8 Securities, 9GAG, and GoAnimate—are already using AWS to deliver highly reliable, scalable, and secure applications to customers.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 125

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Did you grow up playing the classics on your Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Nintendo 64? If you’re like me and love video games and want to go back to simpler times, you can actually build your own entertainment station that contains a mashup of all the best consoles.

Games 52

Games Entertainment Systems Development 52

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. Adopters are betting big on microservices. Figure 1: Respondent roles. What does that mean?

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Database Architecture Education Systems 145

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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Metrics Testing Government Systems 125

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Understanding this DBaaS system might take some adjusting too similar just how traveling on cruises has its tempo which requires us to get used to optimally benefit from what it provides. The great thing about this is that it provides companies with an unprecedented level of freedom when configuring their system.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2021

This evolved into full login systems with passwords, password reset, two factor authentication, biometric authentication, and more. The account switching model wasn’t added until visual systems like Windows arrived, but account management was poorly designed and rarely used. Everyone just piggybacked on each other’s access.

IoT 111

IoT Transportation Entertainment Infrastructure 111

Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The excellent Megapari app that the betting operator offers for Indian gamers has been created specifically for quality online entertainment betting. The section with online entertainment is large and includes only the top slots from the world providers in the field of slots supply.

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Games Entertainment Internet Internet 52