Learning a Personalized Homepage

by Chris Alvino and Justin BasilicoAs we've described in our previous blog posts, at Netflix we use personalization extensively and treat every situation as an opportunity to present the right content to each of our over 57 million members. The main way a member interacts with...

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Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool

by Martin Spier, Amer Ather and Brendan GreggVector is an open source host-level performance monitoring framework, which exposes hand-picked, high-resolution system and application metrics to every engineer’s browser. Having the right metrics available on demand and at a high...

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Extracting contextual information from video assets

By: Apurva KansaraHere, I will describe our approach to extract contextual metadata from video assets to enable an improved Netflix user experience across the large catalog we serve. Part 1: Detecting End-SequencesWhen you finish watching a movie, we are able to provide a unique...

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