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Updated Sep 25, 2026
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Rebuild YouTube with AI
Rebuild YouTube with AI, taught by a former YouTube engineer, kicks off on Saturday, September 26. Enrollment closes in 24 hours.
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Fragments: September 24
Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us…
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The Life of Data: From Creation to Deletion
In this article, we are going to look at the entire data lifecycle from creation to deletion and the decisions that need to be taken at each step.
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Healthy Feedback
Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle…
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How to Customize a Model to Learn New Tricks
In this article, we are going to look at the various strategies to customize and fine-tune a model.
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How OpenAI Built GPT-Live
To understand how it all works end to end, we met with engineers on the GPT Voice team, Zahan Malkani and Justin Uberti (who created WebRTC).
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How to Run a Big Model on Cheap Hardware?
A large AI model can run on modest hardware only by reducing the memory it occupies, reducing the calculations it performs, or moving some work to slower hardware.
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EP226: API Concepts Every Software Engineer Should Know
Sending a request and reading JSON is one thing. Designing an API that other people can rely on is something where things get complicated.
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ReadyOn’s Four Walls of tenant isolation on Amazon EKS
ReadyOn runs a multi-tenant platform on Amazon EKS that handles highly sensitive enterprise data. This post describes their Four Walls model: four independent layers of tenant isolation combining Kubernetes namespaces, Karpenter node pools, Amazon VPC security…
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Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror
Introducing composable, module system native and agent friendly command line tools for modern Java development By Danny Thomas, JVM Ecosystem Team Recent work on the Java language to pave the on-ramp has made it easier than…
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How CSIRO built scalable, cost-optimized genomic variant querying on AWS
Learn how researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, built Serverless Beacon (sBeacon), a scalable serverless solution for securely querying genomic variant data on AWS. sBeacon implements the GA4GH Beacon standard using Amazon S3, AWS Lambda,…
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How Equinix cut operational overhead with a shared services architecture on Amazon EKS
Equinix, the world's digital infrastructure company, built a shared services architecture on Amazon EKS to eliminate the operational sprawl of its self-managed Kubernetes environment. Learn how a multi-account North Star architecture centralized governance and shared services,…
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Migrations at Scale: Changing the Application Engine at 30,000 Feet
In this article, we will look at how migrations work at scale and the key strategies that can help make it as efficient as possible.
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Building cloud-native PACS on AWS
A hybrid cloud architecture pattern for modernizing medical imaging on AWS. Learn how multi-hospital networks can centralize PACS archives, enable cross-facility interoperability, and use Amazon S3 storage tiers to manage cost and retention at scale.
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How DHI Group accelerates generative AI workloads from idea to production using hackathons
Learn how DHI Group partnered with AWS to move generative AI workloads from idea to production using a structured hackathon. This post covers the Hackathon Acceleration Package, the winning ClearanceJobs and AgileATS agentic architecture on Amazon…
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I don't like LLMs
I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build.…
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Fragments: September 16
Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible. Simon Willison sees two options: After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks…
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How LLMs Can Find a Needle in a Haystack
In this article, we are going to look at how LLMs can find a needle in a haystack.
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Nail the Narrative
Sumeet Gayathri Moghe finds many folks building presentations get tangled in building slides without a coherent narrative. He advises distilling the big idea, visualizing the audience, and building a structured storyline. more…
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From zero-shot forecast to purchase order with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Combine zero-shot forecasting with Amazon Chronos2 and multi-agent orchestration on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to turn demand forecasts into validated purchase orders. No per-product model training, with business rules, auditability, and cost that scales to zero.
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Building resilient real-time streaming workers with Amazon DynamoDB leases
Real-time streaming workers that hold hundreds of persistent WebSocket connections lose data when a worker fails. Learn how to build a WebSocket fleet management system on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate that uses Amazon DynamoDB conditional…
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Testing application resilience with Amazon SQS and AWS Fault Injection Service
Learn how to use AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Systems Manager Automation to run progressive chaos experiments against Amazon SQS queues. Validate that your retry logic, circuit breakers, and dead-letter queues actually work under failure…
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Social Media Engagement: summer 2026
A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…
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Fragments: September 8
Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them: . This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat,…
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Do you even need a presentation?
Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a…
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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 Zhang Introduction The Netflix experience is a journey of discovery. Every visual…
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A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
Samuel Yeboah , Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang Liu Today, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature…
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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 API Authors: Nilesh Mishra and Ajit Koti This is the third entry of a multi-part blog series describing…
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Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics
by Aarti Laddha , Richard Diaz-Cool , Rishika Idnani , Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud…
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GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
Authors: Ying Li , Arjun Rao , Shradha Sehgal Introduction Recommendations sit at the heart of the Netflix experience. Our current production models rely on thousands of hand‑crafted features over users, items, and interactions, along with…
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In-House LLM Serving at Netflix
By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full stack ourselves, from model deployment through inference, inside our existing production…
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Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
By Parth Jain , Rakesh Sukumar , Yingwu Zhao , Renzo Sanchez-Silva Nathan Fisher A deep dive into the engineering challenges of building a real-time service dependency map at Netflix scale: from streaming architectures and distributed…
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