Netflix and the IMF Community

Photon OSS - IMF validation for the massesWhen you’ve got something this good, it’s hard to keep it to yourself. As we develop our IMF validation tools internally, we are merging them into a public git repository. The project, code-named Photon (to imply a torchbearer), was...

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Netflix Billing Migration to AWS

On January 4, 2016, right before Netflix expanded itself into 130 new countries, Netflix Billing infrastructure became 100% AWS cloud-native. Migration of Billing infrastructure from Netflix Data Center(DC) to AWS Cloud was part of a broader initiative. This prior blog post...

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Toward A Practical Perceptual Video Quality Metric

by Zhi Li, Anne Aaron, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Anush Moorthy and Megha ManoharaAt Netflix we care about video quality, and we care about measuring video quality accurately at scale. Our method, Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF), seeks to reflect the viewer’s perception...

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