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The Netflix Tech Blog: HTML5 Video at Netflix

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Monday, April 15, 2013. HTML5 Video at Netflix. Today, we’re excited to talk about proposed extensions to HTML5 video that enable playback of premium video content on the web. We currently use Microsoft Silverlight to deliver streaming video to web browsers on the PC and Mac. It provides a high-quality streaming experience and lets us easily experiment with improvements to our adaptive streaming algorithms. But since Microsoft announced the. End of life of Silverlight 5 in 2021. Specification defines an ...

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Hacking NetFlix : More Studios Stripping Special Features From More DVDs?

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Laquo; FeedFliks Adds Notable Title Feature. Percentage of Consoles Connected to the Internet for Streaming ». More Studios Stripping Special Features From More DVDs? Are more studios stripping special features from more rental discs to encourage customers to buy the disc? J from PA writes, I just got The Box. I wrote about this last year. Have you rented any DVDs from Netflix where the special features were removed? April 14, 2010. Yes, and I realize its their right, but it pisses me off. Its extrem...

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The Netflix Tech Blog: How We Determine Product Success

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011. How We Determine Product Success. At Netflix we engage in what we call consumer science: we test new ideas with real customers, at scale, and we measure for statistically significant differences in how they engage with our product. Are members staying with the service longer? Are they instantly watching more TV shows and movies from us? Without consumer science at the core of our product development methodology. The only real failure that’s unacceptable at Netflix is th...

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The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Hack Day - Winter 2015

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Monday, March 9, 2015. Netflix Hack Day - Winter 2015. Last week, we hosted the latest Netflix Hack Day. Hack Day is a way for our product development teams to get away from everyday work. It's a fun, experimental, collaborative, and creative outlet. This time, we had about 70 hacks that were produced by more than 150 engineers and designers. We shared a few examples below to give you a taste, and you can see some of our past hacks in our posts for. BEEP (Binge Encouragement and Enforcement Platform).

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The Netflix Tech Blog: Using Presto in our Big Data Platform on AWS

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Using Presto in our Big Data Platform on AWS. Zhenxiao Luo, Nezih Yigitbasi @. Big Data Platform team. We shared our overall architecture in a. A small subset of the ETL output and some aggregated data is transferred to Teradata for interactive querying and reporting. On the other hand, we also have the need to do low latency interactive data exploration on our broader data set on S3. These are the use cases that. And was easy for us to integrate with our DW on S3. We were d...

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The Netflix Tech Blog: Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage

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Friday, April 29, 2011. Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage. On Thursday, April 21st, Amazon experienced a large outage in AWS US-East which they describe. This outage was highly publicized because it took down or severely hampered a number of popular websites that depend on AWS for hosting. Our post below describes our experience at Netflix with the outage, and what we've learned from it. Why were some websites impacted while others were not? In some ways this Amazon issue was the first major te...

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The Netflix Tech Blog: Introducing Hystrix for Resilience Engineering

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Monday, November 26, 2012. Introducing Hystrix for Resilience Engineering. In a distributed environment, failure of any given service is inevitable. Hystrix is a library designed to control the interactions between these distributed services providing greater tolerance of latency and failure. Hystrix does this by isolating points of access between the services, stopping cascading failures across them, and providing fallback options, all of which improve the system's overall resiliency. Git clone git:/ gi...

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Hacking NetFlix : Netflix New Releases for March 10th, 2015 (Full List)

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Netflix New Releases for March 10th, 2015 (Full List). Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. When 11-year-old Alexander wakes up with gum stuck in his hair, he's unaware that it's only the start of a daylong ordeal of woes. Looking for sympathy, Alexander turns to his family members - who are all having their own awful day. Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf. In his directing debut, TV host Jon Stewart chronicles the 118-day detention and interrogation of journalist Maziar Bahari,...

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Hacking NetFlix : Netflix New Releases for March 31st, 2015

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Laquo; Netflix New Releases for March 24th, 2015. Netflix New Releases for April 7th, 2015 ». Netflix New Releases for March 31st, 2015. Heres the full list of new Netflix DVDs this week ( detailed list. 0160; The Imitation Game. 0160; The Circle. 0160; Out of the Dark. 0160; Wild Card. 0160;and  Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast. March 30, 2015. The comments to this entry are closed. Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs. 24x7 Netflix Support 866-716-0414. Netflix Helps on Twitter.