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NetflixCompany

Streaming entertainment company; its Netflix Technology Blog covers its engineering.

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PythonSoftware

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We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members.

How Netflix uses Python across content, CDN and network operations

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2019-04-29Wrong?

Generational ZGCSoftware

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Netflix has switched by default from G1 to Generational ZGC on JDK 21 and later, because of the significant benefits of concurrent garbage collection.

Netflix moving its JVM services from G1 to Generational ZGC

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2024-03-06Wrong?

KafkaSoftware

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Today, the Keystone platform offers two production services: Data Pipeline : streaming enabled Routing Service and Kafka enabled Messaging Service

Netflix Keystone real-time stream processing platform built on Kafka

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2018-09-10Wrong?

Apache FlinkSoftware

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We are currently focusing on leveraging Apache Flink and build an ecosystem around it for Keystone analytic use cases.

Netflix choosing Flink as the stream processing engine for Keystone

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2018-09-10Wrong?

EVCacheSoftware

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Since then, EVCache has become a fundamental tier-0 service storing petabytes of data and hundred of billions of items, performing trillions of operations per day

Netflix on its own EVCache distributed cache and its move to SSD storage

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2018-07-12Wrong?

ZuulSoftware

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We use Zuul 2 at Netflix as the front door for all requests coming into Netflix’s cloud infrastructure.

Netflix open-sourcing its own cloud gateway

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2018-05-21Wrong?

TitusSoftware

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Titus powers critical aspects of the Netflix business, from video streaming, recommendations and machine learning, big data, content encoding, studio technology, internal engineering tools, and other Netflix workloads.

Netflix open-sourcing its own container management platform

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2018-04-18Wrong?

CassandraSoftware

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The first cloud-native version of the viewing history storage architecture used Cassandra for the following reasons

Why Netflix stored member viewing history in Cassandra

netflixtechblog.com ↗·2018-01-23Wrong?

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