By Steve Urban , Sridhar Seetharaman , Shilpa Motukuri , Tom Mack , Erik Strauss , Hema Kannan , CJ Barker

Netflix is revolutionizing the way a modern studio operates. Our mission in Studio Engineering is to build a unified, global, and digital studio that powers the effective production of amazing content.

Keeping Customers Streaming — The Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix

By Hank Jacobs , Senior Site Reliability Engineer on CORE

We’re privileged to be in the business of bringing joy to our customers at Netflix. Whether it’s a compelling new series or an innovative product feature, we strive to provide a best-in-class service that people love and can enjoy anytime, anywhere. A key underpinning to keeping our customers happy and streaming is a strong focus on reliability.

Reliability, formally speaking, is the ability of

How Netflix is able to enrich VPC Flow Logs at Hyper Scale to provide Network Insight

By Hariharan Ananthakrishnan and Angela Ho

The Cloud Network Infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today is a large distributed ecosystem that consists of specialized functional tiers and services such as DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc. While we strive to keep the ecosystem simple, the inherent nature of leveraging a variety of technologies will lead us to complications and challenges such as:

• App Dependencies and Data Flow Mappings: Without understanding and having visibility into an

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3

By Sekwon Choi

At Netflix, we are obsessed with the best streaming experiences. We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. We are also committed to protecting users’ privacy and service security without sacrificing any part of the playback experience.

To achieve that, we are efficiently using ABR (adaptive bitrate streaming) for a better playback experience, DRM (Digital Right Management) to protect

SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder

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

SVT-AV1 is an open-source AV1 codec implementation hosted on GitHub https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1/ under a BSD + patent license. As mentioned in our earlier blog post , Intel and Netflix have been collaborating on the SVT-AV1 encoder and decoder framework since August 20

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon

As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. Our wider Studio Engineering Organization has built numerous apps that help content progress from pitch (aka screenplay) to playback: ranging from script content acquisition, deal negotiations and vendor management to scheduling, streamlining production workflows, and so on.

Highly integrated from the start

About a year ago, our Studio Workflows team started working on a new app that crosses multiple domains

By Kevin Glisson, Marc Vilanova, Forest Monsen

Netflix is pleased to announce the open-source release of our crisis management orchestration framework: Dispatch!

Okay, but what is Dispatch? Put simply, Dispatch is:

All of the ad-hoc things you’re doing to manage incidents today, done for you, and a bunch of other things you should’ve been doing, but have not had the time!

Dispatch helps us effectively manage security incidents by deeply integrating with existing tools used throughout an organization (Slack