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New Sep 18, 2024
Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer
Vidhya Arvind, Rajasekhar Ummadisetty, Joey Lynch, Vinay ChellaIntroductionAt Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global...
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New Sep 10, 2024
Pushy to the Limit: Evolving Netflix’s WebSocket proxy for the future
By Karthik Yagna, Baskar Odayarkoil, and Alex EllisPushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. This allows da...
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New Sep 10, 2024
Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF
By Jose Fernandez, Sebastien Dabdoub, Jason Koch, Artem TkachukThe Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix regularly investigate performance issues in our multi-tenant enviro...
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New Aug 29, 2024
Recommending for Long-Term Member Satisfaction at Netflix
By Jiangwei Pan, Gary Tang, Henry Wang, and Justin BasilicoIntroductionOur mission at Netflix is to entertain the world. Our personalization algorithms p...
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New Aug 26, 2024
Improve Your Next Experiment by Learning Better Proxy Metrics From Past Experiments
By Aurélien Bibaut, Winston Chou, Simon Ejdemyr, and Nathan KallusWe are excited to share our work on how to learn good proxy metrics from historical experiments at KDD 2024. This wo...
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New Aug 5, 2024
Investigation of a Cross-regional Network Performance Issue
Hechao Li, Roger CruzCloud Networking TopologyNetflix operates a highly efficient cloud computing infrastructure that supports a wide array of applications essential for our SVOD (Subscription Vi...
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New Jul 29, 2024
Java 21 Virtual Threads - Dude, Where’s My Lock?
Getting real with virtual threadsBy Vadim Filanovsky, Mike Huang, Danny Thomas and Martin ChalupaIntroNetflix has an extensive history of using Java as our primary programming language across our v...
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New Jul 22, 2024
Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator
Maestro: Data/ML Workflow Orchestrator at NetflixBy Jun He, Natallia Dzenisenka, Praneeth Yenugutala, Yingyi Zhang, and Anjali NorwoodTL;DRWe are thrilled to announce that the Maestro sou...
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New Jun 25, 2024
Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding
Applying Quality of Service techniques at the application levelAnirudh Mendiratta, Kevin Wang, Joey Lynch, Javier Fernandez-Ivern, Benjamin FedorkaIntroductionIn November 2020, we introduced the co...
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Jun 20, 2024
A Recap of the Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix
A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024.At Netflix, we aspire to enter...