The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

However, a more scalable approach would be to begin with a new foundation and begin a new building. The facilities are modern, spacious and scalable. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies.

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DZone

MARCH 31, 2023

From social media to IoT devices, businesses are generating more data than ever before. This article will explore why stream processing is taking over, including its advantages over batch processing, such as its scalability, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. In the digital age, data is the new currency and is being used everywhere.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The third generation, called Reloaded , has been online for about seven years and has proven to be stable and massively scalable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. When Reloaded was designed, we focused on a single use case: converting high-quality media files (also known as mezzanines) received from studios into compressed assets for Netflix streaming.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In order to train the model on internal training data (video clips with aligned text descriptions), we implemented a scalable version on Ray Train and switched to a more performant video decoding library. If you’re interested in more details, see our other post covering the Media Understanding Platform.

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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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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. Watching every moment of content to find the best frames and select them manually takes a lot of time, and this approach is often not scalable.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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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 system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. We call this system Cosmos.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. This combination helps you improve the parallelism, scalability, and predictive accuracy of your Greenplum machine learning deployment. At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Advantages. How to Get Started.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Meenakshi Jindal Overview At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. Assets Schema got evolved that required reindexing all assets data again in ElasticSearch to support search/stats queries on new fields.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. Our Media Cloud Engineering team wanted to leverage containers for a new platform they were building, called Archer.

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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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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. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This ability to emulate different HDMI sinks has proven very useful for us, yielding increased automation, objective evaluation and scalability of a number of our test cases. Test Area: Requested Media Profile Validation A Netflix capable STB should request accurate media streams from our cloud service for optimal user experience.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick. I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editors pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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DZone

MARCH 6, 2021

Considering that some major financial and social media apps may share data with literally hundreds of partners, that's a bigger undertaking than you might imagine. Performance issues also factor into the question of enterprise-readiness, especially when scalability features become an issue.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Increased reliance on third-party integrations for payment processing, supply chain, or media content. By then, you’ve gone through numerous iterations and improvement cycles so that your performance automation is scalable and produces highly valuable feedback to product teams who espouse it. Business events like a marketing campaign.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

They also used traditional media outlets to direct people to the county website for the latest updates and resources. That’s why traceability, scalability, and reliability are crucial aspects of a cloud strategy, and for this county, OpenShift and Dynatrace delivered on these needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. For instance, envision a response payload that delivers media streams for a playback session.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data. DRM is a collection of access control technologies that are used for protecting the copyrights of digital media such as movies and music tracks.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

In the real world, it’s plausible for hackers to induce media groups to publish fake narratives that in turn contribute to market events such as suspension of trading; that’s precisely the scenario we’re simulating here. There have been many attempts to manipulate targeted individuals and groups on social media. The Arms Race.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2. 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. New feature requests were adding to the maintenance burden for the team.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Then, I add a data URI background image and position it to the right of my layout: @media (min-width: 48em) { body { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 1fr); gap: 2rem; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml…"); background-position: 120% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; } }. Masking Scalable Type. Large preview ).

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

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. In order to implement these mechanisms, we had to make two significant changes to the design of Anna.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., The Optane DIMM is the first scalable, commercially available NVDIMM. An on-DIMM controller (the XPController) coordinates access to the Optane media with internal address translation for wear-leveling and bad-block management. FAST’20.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Amazon’s need for a hassle-free, scalable Titan solution is not unique. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 28, 2019

Emotions are suspect As I’ve written elsewhere , our institutions are organized on a scalable efficiency model that views emotions as deeply suspect. Our mass media (and social media) are increasingly focused on the terrible things that are happening in the world. Why is that the case? Hopelessness and passivity.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Simple Queue Service (SQS) is very useful, easy to use, scalable and reliable. Amazon SQS provides highly scalable â??eventual

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This is apparent in the Media industry where film re-edits, for example, are no longer just about revisiting the original 35mm or 65 mm film but rather all the digital content captured by the 2K or 4K cameras that were used during filming. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. But now this mp3 is on their phone and not on the laptop that they use to sync their iPod with and not on the Windows Media Center PC that powers their HiFi TV set. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability. Asking users to log in to your website via their Facebook account or other social media credentials is no longer recommended.

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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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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. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Google has a long history of shaping SRE processes for their global-scale services that are dedicated to making their services more scalable, reliable, and efficient. A music-streaming service depends on the continuous delivery of media packages while the loss of some of those packages is not overly critical.

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