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How Netflix Uses Protocol Buffers

5 engineering articles about Protocol Buffers from Netflix's engineering team

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This article discusses the use of Protocol Buffers (protobuf) FieldMask at Netflix to optimize API design for gRPC communications.
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The article discusses the enhancements made to FlameScope, a profiling visualization tool, to support additional profile formats, specifically the Trace Event Format and a new format called nflxpro...
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The article discusses the Netflix Media Database (NMDB) and its Media Document data model, which is designed to represent both static and dynamic metadata for various media types.
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The article announces Ribbon, a new client-side software load balancing library developed by Netflix, which integrates with their existing mid-tier services architecture.
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The article discusses the importance of fault tolerance in high-volume distributed systems, particularly focusing on the Netflix API, which handles over 1 billion incoming calls per day.
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