The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal , Burak Bacioglu Introduction At Netflix, to promote and recommend the content to users in the best possible way there are many Media Algorithm teams which work hand in hand with content creators and editors. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. The upstream service calls the existing and new replacement services concurrently to minimize any latency increase on the production path. For instance, envision a response payload that delivers media streams for a playback session.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On a CPU, we leveraged oneDnn to further reduce latency. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. Media and Entertainment – BBC , Channel 4 , ITV , News UK , The FT , Trinity Mirror , The Guardian. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. Cosmos is a computing platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices. This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

And an O’Reilly Media survey indicated that two-thirds of survey respondents have already adopted generative AI —a form of AI that uses training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries. Use containerization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

A file and folder interface for Netflix Cloud Services Written by Vikram Krishnamurthy , Kishore Kasi , Abhishek Kapatkar , and Tejas Chopra In this post, we are introducing Netflix Drive, a Cloud drive for media assets and providing a high level overview of some of its features and interfaces.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

Although this response has a 0B filesize, we will always take the latency hit on every single page view (and this response is basically 100% latency). com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup. On mobile connections, this can amount to whole seconds of delays, all sat on the Critical Path.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2024

While measuring app response time under different circumstances provides a latency value, for example, it doesn’t tell you why the app is slow, fast, or somewhere in between. With Notebooks, users can collaborate using code, text, and rich media to build and share insights.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

To meet user-defined goals for performance (request latency) and cost, the monitoring service tracks and adjusts resources to workload changes. First, we deployed the storage engine across multiple storage media — currently RAM and flash disk. Our monitoring engine automatically moves data between tiers based on access patterns.

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DZone

AUGUST 11, 2022

They address the primary use cases for the organization’s products or support its underlying vital infrastructures, such as a product search service for an e-commerce site, a content posting service for a social media app, or a payment processing framework. That is why it is important to build these services right the first time.

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DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

By processing data at the edge of the network, latency can be minimized, which means that data can be processed and analyzed faster. This is especially important for applications that require real-time responses, such as autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT applications, or streaming media.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The new Frankfurt region provides low millisecond latencies to major cities in continental Europe and is also run with carbon neutral power. This is our 11th infrastructure region and was built to support the strong demand we are seeing in Europe and to give our customers the option to run infrastructure located in Germany.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). One use case for STM is to model the behavior of a customer in the form of a flow of transactions along the buyer’s journey.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases. Even though Cosmos was developed for asynchronous media processing, we worked with them to expand to generic file processing and tune their workflow platform for our near real-time use case.

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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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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Our teams are helping companies of all sizes, operating in various industries, such as finance, business, media, and many others, move to the cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. Most of the business views created on top of the Iceberg tables can tolerate a few minutes of latency. Endnotes ¹ Inmon, Bill. Dehghani, Zhamak.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

webcam access via getUserMedia() or the Media Session API ) may attend deceptively small expansions in exposed API surface. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web. Media Recorder. Media Source API (a.k.a. "MSE"). Meanwhile, truly transformative features (e.g. Audio Worklets.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. The images embedded in social media when sharing our content are of particular interest.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Were experiencing high latency in responses.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Enter graph databases.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. How to optimize images for social media for better engagement and CTR. How to optimize images for SEO to rank and index better in search engines. KB (30%) without losses.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster.

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Games Retail Latency Education 96

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

how well the system fetched relevant documents, measured with metrics like precision and recall), semantic similarity of response, cost, and latency, in addition to performing heuristics checks, such as length constraints, hedging versus overconfidence, and hallucination detection. We tested both retrieval quality (e.g.,

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The answer does not consider the queue or latency of the sample, which could indicate a disk with issues. And if ChatGPT does not give you a proper answer, feel free to contact us on social media or our forum ! In your sample, the %util values range from 1.30 The answer could be better. Q: I have a server with 2 NUMA cores.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

According to the Chrome dev team : "INP is a metric that aims to represent a page's overall interaction latency by selecting one of the single longest interactions that occur when a user visits a page. INP logs the latency of all interactions throughout the entire page lifecycle. Media sites are particularly prone to this issue.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. Homepage of a default Drupal site using the Umami theme. And because this image is within the initial viewport, it’s very noticeable.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Static content represents fixed web elements like HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and media assets. Social media platforms like Facebook are prime examples of sites leveraging dynamic content. Each dynamic request may require transmitting additional data, such as HTML templates, database records, and dynamically generated media.

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