الجمعة، 29 أبريل 2011

Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage

On Thursday, April 21st, Amazon experienced a large outage in AWS US-East which they describe here. 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.Some BackgroundWhy...
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الاثنين، 18 أبريل 2011

“More Like This…” Building a network of similarity

Ever wondered what makes “Inception” similar to “12 Monkeys”?Looking at similarity between movies and TV shows is a useful way to find great titles to watch. At Netflix, we calculate levels of similarity between each movie and TV show and use these “similars”, as we call them,...
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