JUN 2, 2026

Smarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events

By Renata Teixeira, Zhi Li, Reenal Mahajan, and Wei WeiOn January 26, 2026, we flipped an important switch for Live at Netflix: all Live events are now encoded...

Distributed Systems Performance VBR Netlix Live Events Variable Bitrate Live Streaming

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High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I

By Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan, Rajiv ShringiIntroductionNetflix has a diverse range of graph use cases, each serving specific business needs with...

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14 min

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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 & Nathan FisherHow we built a living map of our distributed infrastructure to help engineers...

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15 min

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Scaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules

By John Burns and Emily YuanIntroductionAt Netflix, we operate using a polyrepo strategy with tens of thousands of Java repositories. This means that we need...

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12 min