Global Cloud - Active-Active and Beyond

This is a continuing post on the Netflix architecture for Global Availability.  In the past we talked about efforts like Isthmus and Active-Active.  We continue the story from where we left off at the end of the Active-Active project in 2013.  We had achieved...

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Performance without Compromise

Last week we hosted our latest Netflix JavaScript Talks event at our headquarters in Los Gatos, CA. We gave two talks about our unflinching stance on performance. In our first talk, Steve McGuire shared how we achieved a completely declarative, React-based architecture that’s fast on the devices in your living room. He talked about our architecture...

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Extracting image metadata at scale

We have a collection of nearly two million images that play very prominent roles in helping members pick what to watch. This blog describes how we use computer vision algorithms to address the challenges of focal point, text placement and image clustering at a large scale.Focal...

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Stream-processing with Mantis

Back in January of 2014 we wrote about the need for better visibility into our complex operational environments.  The core of the message in that post was about the need for fine-grained, contextual and scalable insights into the experiences of our customers and behaviors...

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How We Build Code at Netflix

How does Netflix build code before it’s deployed to the cloud? While pieces of this story have been told in the past, we decided it was time we shared more details. In this post, we describe the tools and techniques used to go from source code to a deployed service serving movies...

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