Netflix TechBlog

The Case of the Extra 40ms

By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff Watts

Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content

by Aditya Mavlankar, Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron

Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x performance increase

By Vadim Filanovsky and Harshad Sane

How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

By Alok Tiagi, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan, Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan

Netflix now supports TLS 1.3

By Sekwon Choi

Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator

By Jun He, Natallia Dzenisenka, Praneeth Yenugutala, Yingyi Zhang, and Anjali Norwood

Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

By Liwei Guo, Vivian Li, Julie Beckley, Venkatesh Selvaraj, and Jeff Watts

Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

By David Henry & Mel Yahya

Netflix’s Media Production Suite

Jesse Korosi, Thijs van de Kamp, Mayra Vega, Laura Futuro, Anton Margoline

Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF

By Jose Fernandez, Sebastien Dabdoub, Jason Koch, Artem Tkachuk

AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

Unleashing Film Grain Synthesis on Netflix and Enhancing Visuals for Millions

Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely

By Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare, Will Emmanuel

Open-sourcing Riskquant, a library for quantifying risk

Netflix has a program in our Information Security department for quantifying the risk of deliberate (attacker-driven) and accidental…

Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante

By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña

Rebuilding Netflix's video processing pipeline with microservices

Linux Performance Analysis (2015)

You log in to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute?

SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder

by Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron

Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel

Tycho Andersen

AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan de Cock, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron

How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

By: Cheng Xie, Bryan Shultz, and Christine Xu

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

Introducing UDA, the knowledge-graph-based architecture that translates conceptual domain models into consistent schemas and data…

Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction

By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan

Bpftop: Streamlining eBPF performance optimization

By Jose Fernandez

Remote workstations for discerning artists

By Michelle Brenner

Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective

By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park

Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix

Prasanna Vijayanathan, Renzo Sanchez-Silva

Full cycle developers – Operate what you build (2018)

Operating what you build, empowered with amazing developer tools

Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture

A story on how we leveraged Hexagonal Architecture principles to be prepared for changes in the Netflix Studio ecosystem.