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An interesting connection between Netflix and python

Streaming giant Netflix has shown how it is gaining the most of the versatile programming language Python.

Wondering what Netflix is all about?

Netflix, being a $12 billion designated entertainment company with over 148 million paid memberships in over 190 nations that experience TV series, documentaries and art films across a wide diversity of genres and languages. So you can view as much as you want, anytime, anyplace, on any Internet-connected screen. You can play, pause, and resume watching, all without any commercial or any duty!

Let’s understand how Netflix uses python as its major programming language which is so popular among almost the entire world.

"We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members," writes Netflix engineers in a blog post.

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Let’s take a dive into how Netflix uses python….

Operations

"We are proud to say that our team's tools are built primarily in Python," the team addresses.

Tools used by the team add:

  • NumPy and SciPy to implement numerical analysis
  • Boto3 to make additions to AWS infrastructure
  • rq to work asynchronous workloads
  • Flask APIs are used as a wrapper about the orchestration tools raised.

Statistical analysis

Netflix's CORE team practices many Python analytical and mathematical libraries, also adding NumPy, SciPy, ruptures, and Pandas, which help examine thousands of signals.

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Information Security

To mention a few important leverages aimed for Netflix: security automation, risk classification, auto-remediation, and vulnerability identification — all performed practicing Python.

Machine Learning Infrastructure

Group of machine learning training models from recommendation algorithms to artwork personalization to marketing algorithms, Netflix relies broadly on full of these in Python.

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Notebooks

Several elements of the balancing service are composed in Python. Starting with scheduler, which practices Jupyter Notebooks with a papermill to produce molded job types like Spark. This supports users to have a simple way to represent work that requires to be performed.

Partner Ecosystem

The Partner Ecosystem collection is increasing its usage of Python for testing Netflix applications on devices. Python is the core of a new CI infrastructure, including balancing servers, controlling Spinnaker, test case questioning and filtering, and scheduling tests work on devices and containers. 

Netflix Animation and NVFX

Python is the industry figure for all of the main applications practiced to produce Animated and VFX content.

Not only Netflix but many important companies are also practicing Python. 

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All the Best!

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