Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Talks The Netflix Data Engineering Stack Chris Stephens, Data Engineer, Content & Studio and Pedro Duarte, Software Engineer, Consolidated Logging walk engineers new to Netflix through the building blocks of the Netflix Data Engineering stack. Learn more about how batch and streaming data pipelines are built at Netflix.

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Netflix Tech

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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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Netflix crackdown, monetizing ChatGPT and bypassing FB’s 2FA by Henry Pickavet originally published on TechCrunch And speaking of pitch decks, Haje brings Laoshi’s $570K angel deck breakdown to you. Dear Sophie: Immigration Sophie Alcorn answers the question, What H-1B and other immigration changes can we expect this year?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Price drop: Netflix decreased its subscription costs in more than 100 territories over the past week as customers continue to contemplate which streaming services to keep amid price hikes. Magic Eraser comes to more devices, Spotify gains an AI DJ, and Netflix decreases prices by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding? It can be integrated as a drop-in solution, i.e., we do not need any other changes on the Netflix encoding side or the client device side.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Netflix explores cloud gaming : Just as Google gives up on its cloud gaming efforts , Netflix is diving in. Kanye agrees to buy Parler, Elon Musk reportedly plans mass layoffs at Twitter, and Netflix gets into cloud gaming by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch. ” audio roundup. What are they doing so right?

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions.

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CloudZero

JUNE 2, 2021

If Netflix was a series, it would be a blockbuster. Each season would be nothing short of dramatic to the chagrin of investors.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Netflix is proud to be a founding member of AOMedia and a key contributor to the development of AV1. Since then, we have been working hard to bring AV1 streaming to Netflix members. In February 2020, Netflix started streaming AV1 to the Android mobile app. Challenge 1: What is the best AV1 encoding recipe for Netflix streaming?

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 8, 2022

At Netflix, we don’t just think about productivity - we engineer it. There’s an entire team within Netflix dedicated to productivity. Here’s how we think about it at Netflix: I lead the Develop Domain along with my Delivery and Observability Domain peers, and together, we make up Productivity Engineering.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital.

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Netflix Tech

MAY 21, 2022

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. Many scientists across Netflix have contributed to the way that Netflix analyzes these causal effects. In many areas at Netflix they are already commonly used for these purposes.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Design a video streaming platform similar to Netflix where content creators can upload their video content and viewers are able to play video on different devices. Problem Statement. We should also be able to store user statistics of the videos such as number of views, video watched duration, and so forth.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The post OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot | Netflix Blocks Password Sharing appeared first on DevOps.com. In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. I had been at Netflix for a few years, and had shipped multiple devices, but this was my first Android TV device.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 21, 2022

I talk through some of the experiences myself and peers have had at Netflix, identifying some key learnings and examples we have gained over the years. This article discusses why and when changes to developer needs will occur, how to get ahead of them, and how to adapt when these changes are necessary. By Phillipa Avery.

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Coding Dojo

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Who doesn’t hope to become a coder at Netflix? The post How to become a coder at Netflix appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog. Considering that everyone and their mother is glued to the streaming … Read more >>.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 4, 2024

Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of thousands of workflows and millions of jobs are running per day across multiple layers of the big data platform. For efficient error handling, Netflix developed an error classification service, called Pensive, which leverages a rule-based classifier for error classification.

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Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Backend Engineering Interview Loop When you apply for a backend engineering role at Netflix, or if one of our recruiters or hiring managers find your LinkedIn profile interesting, a recruiter or hiring manager reviews your technical background and experience to see if your experience is aligned with our requirements. Yes, We Are Hiring!

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 30, 2020

By Steve Urban , Sridhar Seetharaman , Shilpa Motukuri , Tom Mack , Erik Strauss , Hema Kannan , CJ Barker Netflix is revolutionizing the way a modern studio operates. link] Netflix produces some of the world’s most beloved and award-winning films and series, including The Irishman, The Crown, La Casa de Papel, Ozark, and Tiger King.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. What is BPF? It performs real time attribution of flow data with application metadata from Sonar.

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Netflix Tech

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. We are using the Netflix Atlas framework to collect and monitor such metrics.

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Netflix Tech

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly.

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and and what the role entails by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley.

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Netflix Tech

MAY 28, 2021

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and and what the role entails By Sean Barnes, Studio Production Data Science & Engineering I am going to tell you a story about a person that works for Netflix. That person grew up dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. Pretty straightforward, right?!

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

They came up with the idea of helping people build credit through recurring payment forms such as digital subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify and Hulu. The experience stuck with him, and when he met Ayush Jain at the University of Southern California, the pair bonded over their belief that credit access should be free.

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Netflix Tech

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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Netflix Tech

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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Netflix Tech

JULY 15, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix? Kevin, you’ve been at Netflix for over 10 years now, which is pretty incredible.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Netflix Hack Day?—?Fall Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?—?November We know even the silliest idea can spur something more.

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling Netflix Certification Scott Bolter , Matthew Lehman , Akshay Garg ¹ At Netflix, we take the task of preserving the creative vision of our content all the way to a subscriber TV screen very seriously. 2020 color space and a larger range of luminance. This concept is known as perceptual mapping ( BT.2087.0

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CloudZero

JULY 14, 2020

Think of orgs with lots of data and it’s impossible to not think of Netflix. In a new Netflix Technology Blog , their Platform Data Science & Engineering team describe their data infrastructure "which is composed of dozens of data platforms, hundreds of data producers and consumers, and petabytes of data.”

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Netflix OSS and Spring Boot?—?Coming Coming Full Circle Taylor Wicksell, Tom Cellucci, Howard Yuan, Asi Bross, Noel Yap, and David Liu In 2007, Netflix started on a long road towards fully operating in the cloud. All of these Netflix libraries and systems were open-sourced around 2012 and are still used by the community to this day.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Netflix is beginning to test its cloud gaming service in the U.S. after initially launching limited trials in Canada and the U.K.

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Netflix Tech

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Netflix Conductor: A microservices orchestrator In the last two years since inception, Conductor has seen wide adoption and is instrumental in running numerous core workflows at Netflix.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 12, 2023

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. Thousands of organizations worldwide benefit from the tools and ideas shared by the Mac admin community, and Netflix is excited that Escrow Buddy will be among them.

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