Tag: Netflix

  • The #1 in a market doesn’t have to give up customer control to Apple: Walmart doesn’t support Apple Pay because they want to control the customer transaction directly, and they’re big enough, and their customers are loyal enough, that they can resist supporting Apple Pay. Netflix doesn’t support TV app integration because they want to…

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  • Post by @softwaredefinedtalk@hachyderm.io This week, Brian Gracely joins @bwhichard to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars?www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/552

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  • YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt – ’YouTube made up 9.7% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the U.S. in May — the largest share of TV for a streaming platform ever reported by Nielsen’s monthly “The Gauge” report. Netflix ranked second, claiming 7.6% of viewership. Among streamers only, YouTube’s…

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  • It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts

    It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts

    In Iowa I was in Des Moines this week to give one of the keynotes at DevOpsDays Des Moines (it went well). Here’s some snapshots from around town: CEO Therapy This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss Netflix’s DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts…

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  • When “customer Value” is weird framing, if not dangerous

    When “customer Value” is weird framing, if not dangerous

    Don’t get hung up on “customer value” and “business value” I feel like this metaphor of “customer value” (and “business value”) has gone too far. It’s become something that people think is real, not just metaphor. Instead of “value” what we’re talking about is something like “is useful at a price the customer will pay.”…

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    Your kids are totally gonna love reading this book at night. Like, right before they go to bed and you were looking forward to reading Stranger Things uninterrupted by kids spooked out by anything scary. Not clown. Not clowns smiling and buzzing people with electricity. Nope. That is not scary. Heat up Netflix, Ma! From…

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  • Link: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix

    How Netflix thinks about standardized platforms and tools, plus their adaptation of DevOps and SRE. “Full cycle developers apply engineering discipline to all areas of the life cycle. They evaluate problems from a developer perspective and ask questions like “how can I automate what is needed to operate this system?” and “what self-service tool will…

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  • A surplus of innovation

    Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His group is releasing an open source project a week – including new monitoring tools that came out this week. “We’re driving a lot of innovation but we’re giving people indigestion. There’s only so many blog posts you can read in a…

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