New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2
Happening back in Linux 7.1 was the "NTFS resurrection" with landing a new NTFS driver into the Linux kernel that had been years in the making...
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The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata
By Celina AmadosAt Netflix, our catalog metadata is crucial to our member experience, and a single corrupted data state can impact millions of viewers immediately. To protect...
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Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale
By Amer Hesson, Marcelo Mayworm, James Mulcahy, and Brittany TruongThe Problem: Managing Assets at Netflix ScaleNetflix’s Data Platform is vast. We have millions of tables in our data...
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Predicting Risk in Content Launches: How Data-Driven Insights can Transform Launch Planning
by Emily GillEach year, we bring the Analytics Engineering community together for an Analytics Summit — a multi-day internal conference to share analytical deliverables across Netflix, discuss analytic practice,...
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The Evolution of Cassandra Data Movement at Netflix
By Guil Pires, Jennifer Prince, Jose Camacho, Ken Kurzweil, Phanindra ChunduruBackgroundIn a previous post, we introduced Data Bridge, a unified management plane for batch Data Movement...
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Thinking Fast & Slow for a Personalized Notification System
by Matthew Wood, Ishan Gupta, Kevin Mercurio, Devon Bryant, and Claire DormanIn his seminal book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” Daniel Kahneman describes two systems that drive human...
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A Human-Augmenting Agentic Workflow for Causal Inference
By Winston Chou, Adrien Alexandre, Lars Olds, Yi Zhang, Garrett Hagemann, and Nathan KallusIntroductionImagine asking a data agent to analyze the causal relationship between two variables, such...
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From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map
By Parth Jain, Rakesh Sukumar, Yingwu Zhao, Renzo Sanchez-Silva & Nathan FisherHow we built a living map of our distributed infrastructure to help engineers understand dependencies,...
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VMAF v1: Good Is Not Good Enough
By Christos G. Bampis, Zhi Li, Kyle Swanson, Nil Fons Miret and Pavan MadhusudanaraoWill this encode look good to Netflix members? Does switching to a new...
Read moreEpson HX-20 Gets A Drive Upgrade
The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on...
Read moreBuilding a Dense Agentic AI CPU Rack Today
We go into what is driving agentic AI server CPU demand on both sides, running the AI agents, but also the legacy workloads The post Building...
Read moreGuild Wars 3 is 'significantly more' of an MMO than the first game, but that doesn't mean it's like GW2: 'All three of our games can coexist as different experiences'
GW3 is definitively an MMO, but ArenaNet says it won't play like either of its predecessors.
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