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Fetched August 10th, 2026
Netflix

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

Netflix needed to efficiently query billions of nodes and edges in a real-time distributed graph while maintaining low latency and high availability across their microservices ecosystem.

distributed-systems api-design
5 min

Fetched August 3rd, 2026
Netflix

GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

Netflix needed to simplify their complex, hand-crafted recommendation system with thousands of features and specialized architectures to make it more maintainable while leveraging large language models.

ml-systems microservices
5 min
Netflix

Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics

Netflix needed to accurately model and track heterogeneous device capabilities across millions of devices to determine which features and content types each device could support.

microservices api-design
5 min