Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale(tokyoweekender.com) In less than a week, the second season of Squid Game — a show about desperate people participating in deadly challenges for money — was viewed nearly 70 million times, becoming the most popular Netflix show in 92 countries.
Cloud Efficiency at Netflix(netflixtechblog.com) At Netflix, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our cloud infrastructure needs, such as compute, storage, and networking to build and run the streaming platform that we love.
Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction(netflixtechblog.com) In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance. As with all our abstractions, we use our Data Gateway Control Plane to shard, configure, and deploy this service globally.
Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe(bbc.co.uk) Offices of streaming giant Netflix in Paris and Amsterdam have been raided by the French and Dutch authorities as part of an investigation into tax fraud, French judicial sources say.
Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers(404media.co) A Netflix executive revealed that the company’s video game division is investing in generative AI in order to “accelerate the velocity of development and unlock truly novel game experiences that will surprise, delight, and inspire players” just weeks after the company shut down its prestige game studio and laid off game developers.