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Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite

The Netflix TechBlog

The opportunity is clear: streamline complex media management logistics, eliminate tedious, non-creative task-based work and enable productions to focus on what matters mostcreative storytelling. With these challenges in mind, Netflix has developed a suite of tools by filmmakers for filmmakers: the Media Production Suite(MPS).

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS has a number of features, including: Stream objects ?— ?

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Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations

The Netflix TechBlog

By Guru Tahasildar , Amir Ziai , Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton , Kelli Griggs , Vi Iyengar Introduction Netflix leverages machine learning to create the best media for our members. Media Search Platform (MSP) is the initiative to address these requirements. Media Search Platform (MSP) is the initiative to address these requirements.

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Production Media Management: Transforming Media Workflows by leveraging the Cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers technology and infrastructure to help production crews create and exchange media during production and post production stages. Lights, Camera, Media! Now that we understand what media workflows are, let’s take a look at some of the workflows we’ve enabled.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. media search index, locations search index, and so forth) in future. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. After that, the various services (e.g.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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