Netflix TechBlog10 min readApr 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 using VBR (Variable Bitrate) instead of

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Stop Answering the Same Question Twice: Interval-Aware Caching for Druid at Netflix Scale

By Ben SykesIn a previous post, we described how Netflix uses Apache Druid to ingest millions of events per second and query trillions of rows, providing the...

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Powering Multimodal Intelligence for Video Search

Synchronizing the Senses: Powering Multimodal Intelligence for Video SearchBy: Meenakshi Jindal and Munya MarazanyeToday’s filmmakers capture more footage than...

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