This is Christian Kaiser, VP of Engineering here at Netflix.My colleague John Ciancutti recently posted about our use of HTML5 for user interfaces; I thought I’d add a perspective on HTML5 and video streaming.Since HTML5 includes a facility to embed video playback (the tag), it seems like a natural next step for us to use it for streaming video playback...
الأربعاء، 22 ديسمبر 2010
الخميس، 16 ديسمبر 2010
5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS
In my last post I talked about some of the reasons we chose AWS as our computing platform. We’re about one year into our transition to AWS from our own data centers. We’ve learned a lot so far, and I thought it might be helpful to share with you some of the mistakes we’ve made and some of the lessons we’ve learned.1. Dorothy, you’re not in Kansas anymore.If...
الثلاثاء، 14 ديسمبر 2010
The Future of the Netflix API
Two weeks ago, Michael Hart (Director of Engineering for Social Systems and founder of the Netflix API) and I were prepared to present the current and future state of the Netflix API at an O'Reilly webinar. After experiencing some technical difficulties, the event never got off the ground. So we are going to give it another shot. The webinar will...
الجمعة، 10 ديسمبر 2010
Why we use and contribute to open source software
This is Kevin McEntee, VP of Systems & ECommerce Engineering here at Netflix. Netflix is a technology company. We develop and apply great software technology to deliver a great streaming video experience. Our budget, measured in dollars, time, people, and energy, is limited and we must therefore focus our technology development efforts on that...
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