Authors: Junkai Xue | Sr Staff Software Engineer, Big Data Processing Platform; Zheyu Zha | Staff Software Engineer, Big Data Processing Platform; Jia Zhan | Principal Engineer, Online Systems; Alberto Ordonez Pereira | Sr Staff Software Engineer, Online SystemsOverviewA quota is an official limit o...
MediaFM: The Multimodal AI Foundation for Media Understanding at Netflix
Avneesh Saluja, Santiago Castro, Bowei Yan, Ashish RastogiIntroductionNetflix’s core mission is to connect millions of members around the world with stories they’ll love. This requires not just an incredible catalog, but also a deep, machine-level understanding of every piece of content in that cata...
Baolin Li, Lingyi Liu, Binh Tang, Shaojing LiIntroductionPre-training gives Large Language Models (LLMs) broad linguistic ability and general world knowledge, but post-training is the phase that actually aligns them to concrete intents, domain constraints, and the reliability requirements of product...
Automating RDS Postgres to Aurora Postgres Migration
Ram Srivasta Kannan, Wale Akintayo, Jay Bharadwaj, John Crimmins, Shengwei Wang, Zhitaou ZhuIntroductionIn 2024, the Online Data Stores team at Netflix conducted a comprehensive review of the relational database technologies used across the company. This evaluation examined functionality, performanc...
The AI Evolution of Graph Search at Netflix: From Structured Queries to Natural LanguageBy Alex Hutter and Bartosz BalukiewiczOur previous blog posts (part 1, part 2, part 3) detailed how Netflix’s Graph Search platform addresses the challenges of searching across federated data sets within Netflix’...