The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Integrating neural networks into our next-generation encoding platform The Encoding Technologies and Media Cloud Engineering teams at Netflix have jointly innovated to bring Cosmos , our next-generation encoding platform, to life. But our journey is not finished yet and we strive to improve and innovate.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. It served as the foundation for numerous encoding innovations developed by our team. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2023

Learn what Bernd Greifeneder, technology entrepreneur and chief innovator, has to say about ChatGPT for achieving unprecedented productivity and software innovation. We also chat about disinformation campaigns on social media platforms and the addictive nature of social media. AI’s environmental impact.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 30, 2023

Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. Listen in to learn about the innovative steps that the USPTO has taken to develop new ways of working. Willie Hicks , Federal Chief Technologist at Dynatrace and one of Tech Transforms’ recurring guests, also made an appearance on the Federal Tech Podcast hosted by John Gilroy.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

On Episode 52 of the Tech Transforms podcast, Dimitris Perdikou, head of engineering at the UK Home Office , Migration and Borders, joins Carolyn Ford and Mark Senell to discuss the innovative undertakings of one of the largest and most successful cloud platforms in the UK. Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Even now I feel like it’s a daily struggle because everyone judges you based on what they perceive, even with social media,” she says. Pushing the envelope for Simone Biles meant she had to create new boundaries—and innovate new moves. I had to wait through four events and then a medal ceremony before I could go speak to the media.”

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

Tune in to learn how innovation can help government agencies gain control of open source security, manage risk, and secure the next generation of technology. Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. Magill explains how government agencies can securely use open source code.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2020

Is your company running Hackathons , Hackdays, Hackfests, Codefests or Innovation Days? Creates innovation for your organization. runs online raffles from time to time but many end-users voice their frustration on social media that they never win. Better creativity from your engineers. Improved the standing of IT with business.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. We call this system Cosmos.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

1] NIST Special Publication 800-88 Revision 1, Guidelines for Media Sanitization Keep valuable data in Grail with targeted deletion With record-level hard deletion, Dynatrace gives you control and transparency over your data. Industry standards refer to hard deletion by overwriting data as the appropriate data sanitization method. [1]

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DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These small but powerful devices are now more than just media centers or low-power workstations, which was their original function. Not only have data centers been transformed by this innovation, but home users, developers, and small businesses looking to maximize their computing resources now can not live without it.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Since then, we’ve developed algorithms such as per-title encode optimizations and per-shot dynamic optimization , but these innovations were not back-ported on these premium bitstreams. We’ve worked hard over the last year to leapfrog to our most advanced encoding innovations?—?shot-optimized 8, 10, 12 and 16 Mbps?—?regardless

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

As organizations turn to artificial intelligence for operational efficiency and product innovation in multicloud environments, they have to balance the benefits with skyrocketing costs associated with AI. Growing AI adoption has ushered in a new reality.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Scientists and engineers can contribute new innovations on three fronts, data, statistics, and visualizations. Video Encoding and Media Cloud Engineering Our team takes care of encoding (and re-encoding) the Netflix catalog, as well as leveraging machine learning for insights into that catalog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

To improve it, we decided to invest in creating a Media Understanding Platform , which enables us to extract meaningful insights from media that we can then surface in our creative tools. Intersection Queries across Multiple Algorithms Several media understanding algorithms return clip or short-duration video segment suggestions.

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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. Seat Pagine Gialle Italia is an Italian media company most famous for producing the Yellow and White Pages directories.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 30, 2023

The role of promotional artwork Great promotional media helps viewers discover titles they’ll love. For example, certain traditional art styles that are effective in traditional media like movie posters might not translate well to the Netflix UI in your living room.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. New databases used to be announced seemingly every week.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the second post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. See here for Part 1: Decision Making at Netflix. Or it could be something else entirely.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2022, we released 33 episodes covering a multitude of topics — from privacy issues to zero trust initiatives to American innovation — that sit at the intersection of technology, government, and human needs. Jennifer Ewbank, Deputy Director for Digital Innovation at Central Intelligence Agency.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 23, 2014

In addition to a broad base of customers, AWS has a vibrant partner ecosystem in Germany that has built innovative solutions and services on AWS. These are just a small sample of the wide variety of companies that have been using AWS extensively and I know they will put the new region to good use.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Promote feedback from individual contributors and give them time to create innovative prototypes and POCs. Sure, that’s the most fun and innovative part! One of the best examples is Vox Media , the company behind The Verge and other high trafficked sites. The technical decisions you take today have a very short lifespan.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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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. For more information about how customers are innovating using AWS, see All AWS Customer Stories.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

This is possible through an innovative technology called Quick Media Switching (QMS) which is an extension of Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) targeted for content playback scenarios. QMS allows a source device to maintain a constant data rate on the HDMI link even during transmission of content with different frame rates.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We also work with some of Africa's fastest growing startups such as Aerobotics, Apex Innovations, Asoriba, Custos Media, EMS Invirotel, Entersekt, HealthQ, JUMO, Luno, Mukuru, PayGate, Parcel Ninja, Simfy Africa, Zapper, Zanibal, and Zoona. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

While a blog or social media post, YouTube gardening or plumbing tutorial, music or dance performance, is implicitly copyrighted by its creators (and may also include copyrighted music or other copyrighted components), it is meant to be freely shared. There are also efforts like the DoNotTrain database, and tools like Cloudflare Bot Manager.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A Mega Asset is a large A/V asset made up of video clips from various titles, acting as a library from which the Dynamic Sizzle pulls media. The core to bringing these great engineering solutions to life is the direct collaboration we have with our colleagues and innovating together to solve these challenges.

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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. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series.

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Percona

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Introducing Percona Everest Percona, a leading provider of open source database software and services, is thrilled to unveil Percona Everest, an innovative, open source, private Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution. Percona Everest revolutionizes the landscape of database management by embracing the power of open source stack.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Canada has set forth a bold innovation agenda grounded in entrepreneurship, scientific research, growing small and medium-sized businesses with a focus on environmentally friendly technologies, and the transition to a digital economy. in the coming year. The Canadian opportunity. Market expansion. AWS as your strategic cloud provider.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

The media alert below that went out today gives the details: European Union Data Protection Authorities Approve Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement. I hope this decision will also help to drive further innovation in the cloud computing sector across the EU.”.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

I look for exciting page layouts, inspiring typography, and innovative ways to combine text with images. Something needs to stand out in those first few seconds for me to look closer, be it an exciting page layout, an inspiring typographic treatment, or an innovative combination of images with text. Say Hello To Skinny Columns.

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