Revisiting BetterTLS: Certificate Path Building

By Ian HakenLast year the AddTrust root certificate expired and lots of clients had a bad time. Some Roku devices weren’t working right, Heroku had problems, and some folks couldn’t even curl. In the aftermath Ryan Sleevi wrote a really great blog post not just about the issue of this one certificate’s expiry, but the problem that so many TLS implementations...

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CAMBI, a banding artifact detector

by Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Lukas Krasula, Zhi Li, and Pulkit TandonIntroducing the banding artifacts detector developed by Netflix aiming at further improving the delivered video qualityBanding artifacts can be pretty annoying. But, first of all, you may wonder, what is a banding artifact?Banding artifact?You are at home enjoying a show on your brand-new...

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Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix

By Minal MishraQuality of a client application is of paramount importance to global digital products, as it is the primary way customers interact with a brand. At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is...

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Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, and Colin McFarlandThis is the third post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Need to catch up? Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix) and Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?). Subsequent posts will go...

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How We Build Micro Frontends With Lattice

Written by Michael Possumato, Nick Tomlin, Jordan Andree, Andrew Shim, and Rahul Pilani.As we continue to grow here at Netflix, the needs of Revenue and Growth Engineering are rapidly evolving; and our tools must also evolve just as rapidly. The Revenue and Growth Tools (RGT) team decided to set off on a journey to build tools in an abstract manner...

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

By Xiaomei Liu, Rosanna Lee, Cyril ConcolatoIntroductionBehind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and...

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What is an A/B Test?

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, and Colin McFarlandThis is the second post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. See here for Part 1: Decision Making at Netflix. Subsequent posts will go into more details on the statistics of A/B tests, experimentation...

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Practical API Design at Netflix, Part 2: Protobuf FieldMask for Mutation Operations

By Ricky Gardiner, Alex BorysovBackgroundIn our previous post, we discussed how we utilize FieldMask as a solution when designing our APIs so that consumers can request the data they need when fetched via gRPC. In this blog post we will continue to cover how Netflix Studio Engineering uses FieldMask for mutation operations such as update and remove.Example:...

Sep 2021

The Show Must Go On: Securing Netflix Studios At Scale

Written by Jose Fernandez, Arthur Gonigberg, Julia Knecht, and Patrick ThomasIn 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every conversation. The vision was to create a “Studio in the Cloud”, with applications supporting every part of...

Sep 2021

Decision Making at Netflix

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, and Colin McFarlandThis introduction is the first in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to make decisions that continuously improve our products, so we can deliver more joy and satisfaction to our members. Subsequent posts will cover the basic statistical concepts underpinning...

Sep 2021