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Authors: Divya Gadde, Ko-Jen Hsiao, Dhaval Patel and Moumita Bhattacharya The motivation for building the Netflix Foundation Model for personalization was laid out in this previous blog post. The Netflix homepage is…
by Olek Gorajek, Samuel Redai, Yian Shang Intro Our Netflix journey from data to dashboards, particularly within the space of the experimentation platform, always presented a unique set of challenges. This blog post…
By Kevin Zielnicki, Guy Aridor, Aurélien Bibaut, Allen Tran, Winston Chou, and Nathan Kallus Introduction Personalization is everywhere on the internet. It shapes the products we discover, the stories we read, the music…
By Oleksii Tkachuk, Rajiv Shringi, Chris Lohfink, Abe Ratnofsky, Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In an earlier post, we introduced the TimeSeries Abstraction, our high-throughput, low-latency platform designed to…
By Yogesh Nagarur Introduction In Part 1 of this series, we shared how Netflix built the Ads Event pipeline and approached it as a system design problem: replacing fragmented pipelines with a centralized collection,…
Netflix Conductor : The Next Chapter by Aravindan Ramkumar on behalf of the Conductor team Conductor is the workflow orchestration engine Netflix uses to stitch micro-services into reliable, observable business…
By Prashanth Gedde Narayanaswamy As one of Netflix’s largest and critical data pipelines, member-sessionizer consolidates tens of billions of hourly client events, encompassing user taps, playbacks, and engagement…
By Emma Yanyang Kong, JJ Tan, Ishan Gupta, Lars Olds, Claire Campbell, David Fagnan, Ratna Kavuri, Rohan Gosain, Veli Balin, Minsu Jang, Louis Garcia Introduction Any team generating text with an LLM at scale hits the…
By Violetta Pidvolotska and Naveen Mareddy Stratum is Netflix’s internal serverless media processing platform, shaped by over a decade of experience developing large-scale distributed systems. It powers a wide range of…
How we detect failing GPUs and network fabric, remediate machines automatically, and let long-running jobs survive hardware loss. Authors: Nick Rutigliano, Argha C, Samartha Chandrashekar Open Netflix, and the home…
Building a slide template starts with three foundational choices — colours, fonts and layouts. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe covers the basics of color theory and how to build a reusable palette, the essentials of typography,…
To understand why this happens, we need to connect three ideas: how models learn, how they generalize beyond their examples, and how they exhibit different kinds of behavior.
Meta has extended Private Processing to AI glasses, using confidential VMs, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, anonymous credentials, OHTTP routing, and TEE-based storage to process AI workloads and…
Hillel Wayne discusses how formal methods principles - such as property strength, state-space verification, and environment assumptions - help software engineers uncover critical architectural bugs early. He shares…
Google has introduced support for local models in the Antigravity SDK, enabling developers to build and execute agentic workflows directly on their own machines, while retaining the flexibility to mix in cloud-based…
Shipt launched its Kits feature, enabling quick assembly of themed grocery bundles for events. The platform architecture lets merchandisers easily create store-aware kits, streamlining previously labor-intensive…
