Netflix TechBlog

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Total points: 7,532
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The Case of the Extra 40ms

2020597 points226 comments Systems & Performance details

By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering

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

2025558 points292 comments Systems & Performance details

Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff Watts

Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content

2020348 points196 commentscited by 4Systems & Performance details

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

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

2022344 points130 comments Systems & Performance details

By Vadim Filanovsky and Harshad Sane

Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

2020295 points135 commentscited by 3Web & Frontend details

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

Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF

2024256 points64 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

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

AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

2025255 points222 comments Systems & Performance details

Unleashing Film Grain Synthesis on Netflix and Enhancing Visuals for Millions

Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding

2020239 points73 commentscited by 3Infrastructure & DevOps details

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

Linux Performance Analysis (2015)

2025181 points40 commentscited by 3Systems & Performance details

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

2020169 points43 commentscited by 3Open Source details

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

Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel

2023166 points33 comments Systems & Performance details

Tycho Andersen

AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

2020161 points79 comments Web & Frontend details

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

How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

2025160 points58 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

By: Cheng Xie, Bryan Shultz, and Christine Xu

Bpftop: Streamlining eBPF performance optimization

2024133 points21 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

By Jose Fernandez

Kubernetes and Kernel Panics

2023113 points27 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

How Netflix’s Container Platform Connects Linux Kernel Panics to Pods

Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

2021110 points36 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

By Xiaomei Liu, Rosanna Lee, Cyril Concolato