How Netflix uses Python Language

This Pandemic day gives a lot of new technological advancements. They were still in the market years before, this lockdown period made us learn more about these new-age developments. One of the technology now getting popular is OTT platforms. OTT abbreviation of Over The Top is an online streaming service for entertainment purposes. It replaced the cable connection which was used earlier. The consumer can download his choice of OTT application and create an account and select a subscription package of their needs. It is relatively a new phenomenon that has a great possibility of growth in the future. Movies, Web Series, Documentaries everything can be seen in a single app. Modern-day smart TVs have the option of OTT applications in them.

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Netflix is one of the most prominent OTT platforms in this sector. Starting in 1997 based in the US it is a subscription-based streaming platform. It provides movies, web series, documentaries and they are also a production house named Netflix originals. The number of users of Netflix is increasing day by day. In this pandemic era, Netflix got huge popularity among audiences. Like all other OTT providers, Netflix also offers a wide range of subscription packages to its customers. In recent times Netflix has revealed the programming language used for its content lifecycle and it is none other than python. The great experience of a movie buff to its customers is because of python.

Python is a high-level programming language that is used for data analysis, Machine learning, Web development, etc. Python is popular because of its easiness to use. Python uses a simple syntax that is easy to read and understand. Python can be used for different purposes. For web development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. The main advantage of python is the vast and popular community. It gives better support to the programmer. Netflix using python will give a different experience to its users.

Let us look at how Netflix is using Python:

As Netflix revealed that they are using python for content streaming let us look at the statement thoroughly and understand all aspects Netflix is getting the help of python language. As Python is a simple syntax easy to use language, a deep study has to be done to know how python can manage a much big OTT platform like Netflix with a huge subscriber background. Let us look into it:

• Open Connect or Content Delivery Network

This is the most important part of the OTT Platform. Netflix is a streaming platform it needs much infrastructural software for streaming videos and this software is built by using Python language. Besides these software, network devices that help the Content Delivery Network are also managed by Python language.

• Demand Engineering Team

The duty of this team is to handle different aspects of Netflix which look into the regional failovers, traffic administration, etc. There are some elements like NumPy, SciPy, Boto3, Redis Queue, Flask, etc are used for the development of infrastructure. These are used by python for mathematical and statistical libraries.NumPy and SciPy are the python libraries used by Netflix. Boto3 is the element used to connect with Amazon Web Services. Netflix uses RQ or Redi Queue for the purpose of tracking tasks present in the queue. Flask is used to combine all the tasks together.

• Information security Team’

The information security team of Netflix uses python language for the purpose of Risk classification, security automation, to find out sensitive data, find out vulnerability, measure risk factors, etc. Overall information security team uses python for its security enhancement.

• Animation and Visual Effects

Animation and VFX of Netflix are done with the help of python. Python is basically for the same purpose in most applications. The vast and active community of python makes it possible for this purpose and Netflix made use of that active community. And there are many third-party libraries available for problem-solving purposes.

• Machine Learning

Python is a language that is used for machine learning and web development etc. Most of the applications is using Python for machine learning. The framework called  Metaflow- a python framework is used for machine learning for different applications. To fetch data and handle data points this framework is used in Netflix.

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From the above points, it can be said that python is the key force behind the streaming platform Netflix. Python is a programming language that is growing day by day. It is a career that even a beginner can rely upon. Python’s different libraries are used in Netflix at different levels. From content delivery network to video quality evaluation, from the information security team to machine learning. So we can say that Netflix is driven by Python.

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