SEP 1, 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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MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale

By Emma Yanyang Kong, Aditya Deshpande, Asad Abbasi, Bowei Yan, David Fagnan, Ashish Rastogi, Dhaval Patel, Ray ZhangIntroductionThe Netflix experience is a...

StreamingScale

17 min

Netflix10d ago

A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers

Samuel Yeboah, Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang LiuToday, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one...

StreamingScale

11 min

Netflix24d ago

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC execution APIAuthors: Nilesh Mishra and Ajit KotiThis is the...

StreamingScale

24 min

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