The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the third post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. is in terms of simple games of chance where we can calculate and visualize all the relevant probabilities.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. To take advantage of the game-changing opportunities, businesses are looking to blend into the digital world.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This zero-day vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device or Internet-based application if the device or app runs certain versions of Log4j 2, a popular Java library. How Dynatrace Application Security changed the game for Avisi’s Log4Shell response. Log4Shell: What’s at stake for Avisi and its customers.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure. With titles like Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Hay Day, Supercell has 100 million people playing their games every single day.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We would still be building higher and higher on top of VMs because that's where platform innovation would have stopped evolving. We have several players like Cloudflare innovating to become alternative lower-cost cloud providers. So why bother innovating? This is because the cloud is not a railroad. They are different in kind.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

DynamoDB continues to be embraced for workloads in Gaming, Ad-tech, Mobile, Web Apps, and other segments where scale and performance are critical. Let’s walk through another gaming example. Consider a table named GameScores that keeps track of users and scores for a mobile gaming application. DynamoDB Refresher.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments (). Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Two areas where Lambda is driving a lot of innovation is Mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT). Apply Custom Logic to User Preferences and Game State – Amazon Cognito makes it easy to save user data, such as app preferences or game state, in the AWS Cloud and synchronize it among all the user’s devices.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

According to US copyright law, everything published in any form, including on the internet, is automatically copyrighted by the author for the life of its creator, plus 70 years. Even on today’s internet these mechanisms are fragile, complex, change frequently, and are often not well understood by sites whose content is being scraped.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Executives and decision makers can now better see the promise blockchain holds to improve business processes and facilitate creating innovative products, and, in some cases, entirely new markets. Much like the Internet, how you use the technology depends on your perspective and objectives. Enterprise momentum builds for blockchain.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. You could build a new gaming application that can support 15,000 monthly active users. NoSQL and Scale.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. Software also makes its own opportunities, because it is inherently a business of invention and innovation. It's worth looking at why.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In 2021, it’s not just advisable, but compulsory to invest in customer experience as with high-quality software development available literally anywhere and at different costs, successful interaction with your customer is the real game-changer. Innovation, idea generation, and creativity. Do they connect smoothly? Be there on time.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 21, 2019

He designed this new platform to be permission-less and free, an open space for creativity, innovation, and free expression that transcended geographic and cultural boundaries. Our world is now 30 years into its internet-driven, digital-centric life. This has reshaped us, from how we run a household to how we do our jobs.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021 court arguments in the case of EPIC Games vs. Apple (slide image). Over the years, developers have suffered mightily under the thumb of entirely unwanted browser diversity in the form of trailing-edge browsers; most notably Internet Explorer 6). What isn't beneficial is unused diversity potential.

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Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations. With the increase in speed and less latency, there are a lot of possibilities that can be explored in the field of the internet of things (IOT) and smart devices.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs. AAA gaming, CAD). bank passwords).

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting. They were in a state of mutually assured destruction.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The problem with engagement is that gaming the system is simple: inject some articles or videos with clickbait titles, create some bots to read or watch the content and make it trend, and sit back as the social networks drive the feedback loop via suggested content.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

We didn’t have consoles in our house, so I only played video games when I went over to my friends. But I have a fond memory of those games and figured this book might be worth a read. Highly recommend this book, regardless of your interest in video games. I was always the one whose turn was the shortest. Wow, was it ever!

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