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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