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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Our response was to create Cosmos, a platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Within a Stratum function invocation, our deep downscaler is applied prior to encoding.

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What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. The observability problem of the serverless approach. Dynatrace news.

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Serverless Reference Architecture with AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

I see a tremendous interest in examples how to build such applications, and articles such as " The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers! If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications. about teletext.io

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Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

I see a tremendous interest in examples how to build such applications, and articles such as " The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers! If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications. about teletext.io

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Take A Node.js With Express API Serverless Using AWS Lambda

The Polyglot Developer

Applications that manipulate media will need to be able to scale, otherwise there is a risk of the application crashing from not enough resources, or too many resources can get expensive. For this reason, it makes perfect sense to take the previous example serverless with Amazon’s Lambda and API Gateway offerings.

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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

The Netflix TechBlog

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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