The personalized video recommendations which are served up by Netflix are a glossy front page which is a result of Research Engineers like Ehtsham Elahi rolling his sleeves up for machine learning challenges every day. Machine Learning is a core part of the Netflix product with everything impression being recommended by an algorithm. One of the challenges for Netflix is scale ...

The subject of February’s San Francisco Metrics Meetup was anomaly detection where Cody Rioux from the real-time analytics team at Netflix gave this talk on artificial intelligence and machine learning, specifically how Netflix use a custom built in house system called Kepler to run against telemetry data and spot outliers. In the context of this talk Netflix define outlier as ...