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| Mar 22, 2017 | Firefox for Linux is now Netflix compatible | Relying on a Linux distribution as your full time operating system can be great -- until it isn't. While there are many quality packages and applications that are compatible with the open source kernel, every once in awhile you will run int... |
| Feb 22, 2017 | Netflix open sources user device security check tool | Streaming video giant Netflix has released its Stethoscope web application as open source to help workers make informed decisions on device security.
Netflix engineers Jesse Kriss and Andrew White said the idea behind Stethoscope was to col... |
| Feb 8, 2017 | В Netflix разработали бота для работы с репозиториями GitHub | Отдел новостей 8 февраля 2017, 13:49 В Netflix разработали бота для работы с репозиториями GitHub
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| Feb 7, 2017 | Netflix open-sources a Slack bot that helps devs manage GitHub repos | Netflix announced today the release of HubCommander, an open source Slack bot to track and manage GitHub organizations and repositories.
Netflix is the second large company to launch a Slack bot today. Earlier in the day, PayPal released it... |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Netflix open-sources a Slack bot that helps devs manage GitHub repos | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jan 31, 2017 | MindFlix Lets You Browse Netflix With Your Mind And A Muse Headband: Look, Ma, No Hands! | Chris Loterina, Tech Times 31 January 2017, 06:01 am
Netflix seems bent on rendering you immobile on your couch, as it is reportedly mulling the production of a device called MindFlix that can let you browse the platform's catalogue through... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | Netflix engineers hacked a brain-controlled interface | This is pretty much the definition of unnecessary, but then, that’s part of the fun of hack days. A quartet of Netflix designers have given the world “MindFlix,” by way of a short video, highlighting the hack’s use of a the Muse headband to... |
| Dec 5, 2016 | Using VP9 and H.264/AVC High codecs keeps Netflix video downloads smaller | The announcement that Netflix now allows viewers to download videos for offline viewing caused understandable excitement among subscribers. Of course, the key concern -- particularly with mobile devices -- is storage space. But thanks to a ... |
| Dec 5, 2016 | Netflix’s offline downloads have a neat trick to save iPhone storage space | Last week, Netflix launched the one feature that binge-watchers worldwide have been wanting: support for movie downloads on mobile devices. The move is meant to help you binge on your favorite shows while you’re on the move, without worryin... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Netflix puts next-generation video codecs like x265 and VP9 to the test | Over the last few years we’ve seen several next-generation media codecs vie to replace H.264 as the encoder of choice for both discs and streaming content. HEVC, or H.265, may have already won the Ultra HD Blu-ray race, but the battle for s... |
| Aug 9, 2016 | You Can Now Use Netflix's Speed Test Tool Fast.com On Android, iOS | Vincent Lanaria, Tech Times 09 August 2016, 10:08 pm
Netflix is rolling out the mobile version of its own speed test tool fast.com on Android and iOS, putting up a viable alternative to Ookla's well-known Speedtest.net.
Right off the bat, i... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Netflix to open source orchestration framework | Netflix is hoping to open source a system it built to orchestrate the machine learning workflows that improve recommendations to users on what to watch next.
The streaming giant first revealed the Meson orchestration and scheduling framewor... |
| Jun 14, 2016 | Hulu’s VR app arrives on Oculus Rift | Hulu is bringing VR content to Oculus Rift headsets, the company announced this morning. Through the company’s Hulu VR app, launched earlier this year for Samsung Gear VR devices, viewers will be able to access over 30 original VR programs,... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Netflix Blocks IPv6 Tunnels Over Geo-Unblocking Fears | It used to be a little talked about secret but the fact that all Netflix users aren’t treated equally is now well and truly out of the bag.
Due to licensing deals with content providers, most regions in the world are granted access to diffe... |
| May 26, 2016 | Netflix Engineers Develop VR 'Blockbuster' Complete With Shelves And VHS Tapes | Dave Calpito, Tech Times 26 May 2016, 09:05 am
Netflix engineers developed a virtual video rental store dubbed Netflix Zone, which looks akin to a Blockbuster complete with shelves and VHS tapes.
During the firm’s so-called biannual Hack Da... |
| May 24, 2016 | 3 awesome Netflix hacks that need to be real | About two times a year, Netflix holds an internal hackathon where employees are encouraged to come up with creative ideas and explore new technologies, both in software and hardware, that tend to fall outside of their day-to-day job descrip... |
| Apr 20, 2016 | Sony’s streaming service Crackle unveils its plans for VR content…and VR ads | VR content will soon be arriving on yet another digital streaming service — this time, Sony’s Crackle. But it will also include VR-enabled ads, the company announced today. That is, in addition to streaming its entire content library — incl... |
| Apr 19, 2016 | HBO gets into VR with investment in OTOY | HBO is getting into virtual reality, too. Amid the ongoing craze for VR videos, which has seen streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu rolling out their own VR content, HBO and Discovery announced this morning they’ve taken an equity stake i... |
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| Mar 24, 2016 | Hulu steps into virtual reality with a new app for Samsung Gear VR | As promised, Hulu has entered the world of VR. The streaming service today announced the launch of an app designed for Samsung’s Gear VR powered by Oculus. Now available on the Gear VR Oculus Store, the new app is the first of what the comp... |
| Mar 23, 2016 | Why Amazon's most important cloud customer, Netflix, is speaking at Google's big cloud conference | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jan 18, 2016 | The Potential Problems And Profits For Netflix In Africa | Jake Bright Contributor
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| Jan 13, 2016 | Comcast-Funded Think Tank: Broadband Usage Caps Make Netflix Streaming Better. You're Welcome. | As we’ve noted for some time, the broadband industry (and all the think tanks and politicians that work for it) have spent the last few years trying to vilify Netflix. That’s primarily due to the company’s support of net neutrality, but als... |
| Dec 17, 2015 | Windows 10 Netflix Universal App Goes Live With New User Experience: Here's What You Get | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 17 December 2015, 08:12 am
Windows 10 now has a dedicated Netflix app, arriving as a universal app that should work across PCs, phones, and tablets alike.
Netflix is among the most popular video streaming apps ... |
| Dec 17, 2015 | Firefox for Windows users can now watch Netflix in HTML5 instead of Silverlight, coming to OS X next year | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mozilla today announced that Firefox for Windows now works with Netflix’s HTML5 video player. At the same time, Netflix promised the fu... |
| Dec 17, 2015 | Firefox Users On Windows Can Now Watch Netflix Without A Plugin | Remember Microsoft’s Silverlight Flash competitor? Few people probably do (and Microsoft has long given up on it), but for the longest time, you needed Silverlight to watch Netflix in your Firefox browser on Windows. Starting today, however... |
| Dec 16, 2015 | Netflix launches a new universal app for Windows 10 devices | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Netflix has launched a new universal app for Windows 10, as the video-streaming giant becomes the latest in a line of companies to embr... |
| Dec 16, 2015 | Netflix to offer less bandwidth for My Little Pony, more for Avengers | reader comments 135 with 61 posters participating, including story author
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| Nov 18, 2015 | Microsoft embraces cloud independence for customers | Microsoft was a latecomer to the cloud and has had to work hard to catch up with competitors who threaten to eat into its traditional enterprise market.
Signs are that the effort is working. Analyst firm Synergy Research notes Azure is grow... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Get Personal to Close the Customer Experience Gap | October 16, 2015 6 min read
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Over the past few years, there’s been a tremendous shift in the marketing world. Consumers are more educated than ever before getting to the purchase... |
| Sep 4, 2015 | Netflix releases Sleepy Puppy anti-XSS tool | Video streaming giant Netflix has open-sourced its customisable Sleepy Puppy anti-cross site scripting tool to help developers secure their web applications against the vulnerability.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a common security problem ... |
| Aug 12, 2015 | How Good Developers Deal With Bad Code | It’s possible that you have never written a bad line of code. Possible, but unlikely in the extreme.
The reality is that you, like every other developer on this planet, creates security flaws, misaligns UI elements, and more. It’s not that ... |
| Jun 13, 2015 | Can Hadoop be Apple easy? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hadoop is now on the minds of executives who care... |
| Jun 13, 2015 | Can Hadoop be Apple easy? | Hadoop is now on the minds of executives who care deeply about the power of their rapidly accumulating data. It has already inspired a broad range of big data experiments, established a beachhead as a production system in the enterprise and... |
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| Mar 10, 2015 | Netflix finally comes to … the Nintendo Entertainment System | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The mad scientists in Netflix’s engineering lab have come up with a way of streaming its videos to a 30-year-old gaming console.
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| Feb 1, 2015 | Netflix knows what women want | Netflix will win the TV wars because it takes women seriously
Earlier this month, Netflix released the full second season of its new original program, The Fall—a psychological thriller based in Belfast, Ireland about a serial killer who tar... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | Flash takes backseat as YouTube moves to HTML5 | Google's online video service YouTube will now use HTML5 technology as the default media player instead of Adobe's Flash Player, the company announced today.
YouTube videos will use the HTML5 tag by default with newer web browsers such as G... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | 5 Reasons Your Company Should Open Source More Code | Given intense competition for the world’s best engineering talent, can your company really afford to lock up its code behind proprietary licenses? Sure, if you’re in the business of selling software, giving it all away may not make sense. B... |
| Jan 7, 2015 | Google Porn Takedowns Carpet Bomb Github | Every single week thousands of copyright holders and anti-piracy companies demand that Google removes links to allegedly infringing content.
The effort required to deal with this deluge is considerable. Google has received as many as 11 mil... |
| Jan 7, 2015 | Another Day, Another Bogus Set Of DMCA Takedowns Based Solely On Keywords (This Time Hiding Legit GitHub Projects) | For many years we’ve seen DMCA takedowns that were clearly based on little more than quick keyword searches. There are so many of these cases that it’s difficult to keep track of them, but a few examples: Fox demanded a takedown of an artic... |
| Sep 17, 2014 | Netflix’s Chaos Engineering Should Be Mandatory—Everywhere | Most enterprises hire people to fix things. Netflix hires people to break things.
Over and over. And over.
Rather than look at Netflix as some bizarre Silicon Valley curiosity, relevant only to those who live between 280 and 101, we should ... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | Netflix “Chaos Commander” hiring “Chaos Engineers” to attack network | reader comments 30 with 29 posters participating
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| Aug 22, 2014 | Oculus Rift popularity soaring? Get minimum $500 to catch a bug, Netflix creates custom UI | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 22 August 2014, 07:08 am
Oculus VR's virtual reality headset Oculus Rift is still in the works, but it's already so hugely popular that Facebook has already included the headset into its bug bounty program.
Facebook,... |
| Aug 20, 2014 | Check out these hacked Netflix apps for Oculus Rift & Philips Hue (videos) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Netflix’s semi-regular company hack events usuall... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Netflix's newest open-source project, Security Monkey, hunts for vulnerabilities atop Amazon's cloud | Netflix’s crazy cloud engineers are at it again — this time with a new open-source tool to optimize the company’s use of Amazon’s public cloud.
The goal is to ensure that Netflix stays secure as several engineers with different accounts cha... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Netflix's newest open-source project, Security Monkey, hunts for vulnerabilities atop Amazon's cloud | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Netflix’s crazy cloud engineers are at it again —... |
| Jun 4, 2014 | Netflix brings HTML5 video to OS X Yosemite | WWDC has proven to be the big event this week, introducing the latest iteration of Apple's operating system, known as OS X Yosemite -- yes the company has moved on from big cats, it did so with Mavericks.
One of the first to take advantage ... |
| Apr 22, 2014 | With a new $12M, Electric Cloud continues to power automated software iteration | Creating and delivering software doesn’t seem to be enough anymore. As software companies face fiercer and fierce competition, they need to iterate on their products quickly, efficiently, and with minimal disruptions. Electric Cloud has bee... |
| Apr 22, 2014 | With a new $12M, Electric Cloud continues to power automated software iteration | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Creating and delivering software doesn’t seem to ... |
| Mar 24, 2014 | The Quantified Us: Between Big and Small Data, Between the Quantified Self and the Crowd | For a dedicated minority, the ‘Quantified Self’ era has been met with enthusiasm. Not only can massive datasets about oneself be a route to enhanced self-discovery, they can also be a tool for running self-experiments and figuring out how t... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Continuous delivery is a killer advantage for companies that want to move fast without breaking things | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Call it the need for speed.
When it comes to deli... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Continuous delivery is a killer advantage for companies that want to move fast without breaking things | Call it the need for speed.
When it comes to delivering software, today’s business climate has three prerequisites for success: speed, agility, and innovation. While multi-year, expensive, and bloated software initiatives were once a realit... |
| Mar 1, 2014 | Geniuses Invent Bracelet That Pauses Netflix When You Fall Asleep | You can start watching your Netflix show from the exact point you passed out! (Screengrab: YouTube)
The one thing more depressing than spending your weekend nights alone in bed watching Sherlock is falling asleep before you even find out ho... |
| Feb 28, 2014 | Netflix gets hacked -- don't panic, it's a good thing | Working in the corporate world can be pretty soul-crushing. This is particularly true for engineers and programmers. You see, they all start out as young men and women with big ideas and ambition. However, office politics and bureaucracy ca... |
| Feb 28, 2014 | Netflix engineers hack Fitbit to track when you fall asleep during a video | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What do you get when a bunch of Netflix engineers... |
| Feb 10, 2014 | Netflix moves into deep learning research to improve personalization | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google isn’t the only company looking to make lot... |
| Feb 10, 2014 | Netflix moves into deep learning research to improve personalization | Google isn’t the only company looking to make lots and lots of computers function more like human brains.
In a blog post published earlier today, Netflix research engineers Alex Chen, Justin Basilico, and Xavier Amatriain talked about ways ... |
| Aug 16, 2013 | System Down! An Application Outage Survival Guide | A major system outage is every business’s worst nightmare, especially if you rely on applications to generate revenue. Depending on the scale of the outage this can be a very expensive problem—eCommerce stands to lose millions in sales for ... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | Netflix’s open source “Genie” controls data in Amazon’s cloud | Raul P reader comments 6 with 6 posters participating
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| Jun 24, 2013 | Netflix Positioned To Lead The Next Wave Of Cloud Adoption | Amazon may well be the most important infrastructure company in the industry today, given its dominant role in public cloud infrastructure. But the company making that infrastructure sing, regularly releasing code that enables companies to ... |
| May 6, 2013 | The Fight Over DRM In HTML5 Should Represent The Last Stand For DRM | Back in January, we noted our disappointment with the news that there was a proposal underway to add DRM to HTML5 (called “Encrypted Media Extensions” or EME), backed by Microsoft, Netflix and Google. It was further disappointing to see web... |
| Apr 17, 2013 | Netflix says 'goodbye Silverlight', 'hello, HTML5' | With what I can only presume is wry sense of humor, Netflix's Anthony Park and Mark Watson post: "Since Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2021, we need to find a replacement some time within the next 8 years"... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Netflix coming to HTML5 just as soon as the DRM ducks are in a row | reader comments 125 with 78 posters participating
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| Apr 16, 2013 | Netflix begins the move to HTML5, but DRM stands in the way | Netflix uses Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in to deliver its streaming video. It works fairly well on OS X and Windows, but it’s not a viable option on Linux, mobile devices, or set-top boxes. At this point, with Microsoft discontinuing Silv... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Netflix Dropping MS SilverLight and getting onto the HTML5 bandwaggon | Netflix has been “frustratingly” using MicroSofts Silverlight technology to deliver streaming video to web browsers on the PC and Mac. I say frustratingly because that does limit what devices you can actually run the application on and if t... |
| Apr 15, 2013 | Netflix Moves To Samsung ARM-Based Chromebooks, Thanks To Premium Video Extensions In HTML5 | Thanks to the availability of a couple of premium video extensions that it’s been helping to develop along with other Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) members, Netflix today is announcing support for HTML5 playback on Samsung ARM-based Chrome... |
| Apr 15, 2013 | Netflix plans first steps to move from Silverlight to HTML5 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Netflix has unveiled the first details of a long-... |
| Jan 7, 2013 | Trickle-Down Web Innovation Breathes New Life Into Enterprise IT | IBM spends over $1.5B every quarter in research and development (R&D) expenses. SAP? Closer to $700M. Oracle? Assuming we don’t count the tens of billions it spends buying other companies, its actual quarterly R&D budget comes in ju... |
| Dec 1, 2012 | Breaking Through Cloud Addiction | Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital and The Modern Business Guide to Panel Discussions. Follow him on Twitter.
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| Nov 26, 2012 | Netflix Releases Hystrix, A Service For Making Apps In The Cloud More Resilient | Netflix is open sourcing its libraries for connecting the numerous services it uses on Amazon Web Services to keep its business running. Dubbed Hystrix, the offering is just another example of how Netflix has become the model for how to dep... |
| Nov 21, 2012 | How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust | Enlarge
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| Oct 7, 2012 | 5 cloud-native security companies to watch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Oct 7, 2012 | 5 cloud-native security companies to watch | This guest post is written by entrepreneur and AngelList Scout Mathew Johnson.
Important advances in security are happening right now due to the trends of virtualization everywhere and the aggressive move to deploy applications in the cloud... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Google’s shutdown of China’s Acer phone makes short-term sense, long-term trouble | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of the big stories developing over the past week is the unfolding drama around Acer, Alibaba and Google.
Hardware maker Acer was pl... |
| Sep 5, 2012 | Eureka! Netflix makes Amazon more reliable with open source software | reader comments 27 with 23 posters participating
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| Jul 30, 2012 | Netflix attacks own network with “Chaos Monkey”—and now you can too | Netflix built a virtual monkey to wreak havoc on its network. We imagine it's not as creepy-looking as this one.
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| Jul 30, 2012 | Netflix Open Sources Chaos Monkey – A Tool Designed To Cause Failure So You Can Make A Stronger Cloud | Netflix has open sourced “Chaos Monkey,” its tool designed to purposely cause failure in order to increase the resiliency of an application in Amazon Web Services (AWS.)
It’s a timely move as AWS has had its fair share of outages. With tool... |
| Jul 8, 2012 | Netflix explains outage, wants to hire engineers who can help prevent a repeat | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jul 3, 2012 | Amazon explains weekend outage, but Instagram, Netflix, & Pinterest stay mum | Amazon has released a detailed explanation of its massive EC2 outage this past Friday and Saturday. But even with all the new info, services that went down, including Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest, have yet to fill in some crucial blank... |
| Jul 3, 2012 | Amazon explains weekend outage, but Instagram, Netflix, & Pinterest stay mum | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Apr 17, 2012 | How over-reliance on social signals could ruin online recommendations | It was 2007 when Netflix opened up a contest to programmers around the world. The challenge, and it was a lofty one at the time, was to improve the quality of the Netflix recommendation algorithm by 10%. Teams were provided with anonymized ... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | Netflix never used its $1 million algorithm due to engineering costs | reader comments 51 with 44 posters participating, including story author
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| Apr 13, 2012 | Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge | You probably recall all the excitement that went around when a group finally won the big Netflix $1 million prize in 2009, improving Netflix’s recommendation algorithm by 10%. But what you might not know, is that Netflix never implemented t... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | If your Android is one of 1,000, you can stream Netflix | Who says Android device diversity is bad for developers? There has been lots of blabbering on the InterWebs about fragmentation and how it hurts Android compared to iOS. Not at Netflix, which claims support for about 1,000 different Android... |
| Nov 20, 2011 | The trials and tribulations of HTML video in the post-Flash era | reader comments 151 with 70 posters participating
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Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is th... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Amazon’s Latest Outages Raise Questions About the Cloud’s Stability | Amazon’s Web hosting services suffered another outage this past weekend, this time in its European zone, thanks to power issues at a data center in Dublin, Ireland.
The outage, at first thought to have been caused by a lightning strike, may... |
| Mar 26, 2011 | The Future of the Internet | I've long subscribed to the philosophy that this existence basically widdles down to two things: energy and information. The issue with energy is obvious although its solution might not be so straightforward. Information is more conceptual.... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | Why and How Netflix Adopted NoSQL Databases | Netflix Director of Cloud and Systems Infrastructure Yury Izrailevsky explains how and why Netflix migrated some of its systems to NoSQL. “In the distributed world governed by Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem , high availability (a.k.a. better cus... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | Netflix Shows Which ISPs Actually Perform Well… And Which Don't | It’s always fun to discover some data that reveals some useful info — and the folks over at Netflix have apparently realized that they’re sitting on a treasure trove of data concerning the performance levels of various ISPs, based on all th... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Netflix makes friends and enemies with ISP report cards, new social features | Netflix today issued its first report on Internet service provider performance, ranking cable company Charter the best and wireless provider Clearwire dead last.
By making the rankings public, Netflix likely hopes to shame ISPs into providi... |
| Netflix’s offline downloads have a neat trick to save iPhone storage space | Last week, Netflix launched the one feature that binge-watchers worldwide have been wanting: support for movie downloads on mobile devices. The move is meant to help you binge on your favorite shows while you’re on the move, without worryin... |
| Netflix has revamped its recommendations to make them better than ever | Netflix has long won praise for its recommendations system that gives you suggestions for movies and shows to watch based on your viewing history. The company revealed on Wednesday, however, that it’s taken steps to make its recommendations... |
| The Quantified Us: Between Big and Small Data, Between the Quantified Self and the Crowd | UPDATED: March 25
Have you ever wondered how many steps you took today, or exactly what percentage of calories you burned walking versus running? Curious to know how stressed you are at work versus at home, or exactly how much REM sleep you... |
| The clever way Netflix is manipulating your binge watching | Netflix is a hugely popular streaming service that has more than 81 million worldwide subscribers. What makes Netflix so popular is that it offers instant access to hundreds of titles, including original content, that are available to strea... |
| 3 awesome Netflix hacks that need to be real | About two times a year, Netflix holds an internal hackathon where employees are encouraged to come up with creative ideas and explore new technologies, both in software and hardware, that tend to fall outside of their day-to-day job descrip... |
