Prime Video
It’s hard to tell where some stories begin, but for Girish Bajaj, VP WW Prime Video & Studios Technology, the story of innovation at Prime Video and Amazon Studios started in 2006 and hasn’t stopped since.
Prime Video’s algorithm optimized encoding for secondary content and manifest generation for content stitching, achieving the best performance and compatibility on customer devices.
Leveraging Apache Lucene and a heuristic search algorithm to enrich Prime Video’s catalog with IMDb metadata.
Prime Video teams had ambitions to add support for live sport broadcasts and scale from 20 live events a year to thousands. Here’s how we did it.
An unlikely customer anecdote and some simple bloom filters helped a Principal Engineer solve a duplicate problem on the Prime Video homepage.
BA Winston, VP of Technology at Prime Video, reflects on eight years, many launches, and reducing latency for live streaming at Prime Video.
In a pilot study, an automated code checker found about 100 possible errors, 80% of which turned out to require correction.
Prime Video used computer vision technology to reinvent sports-field tracking for monocular broadcasting videos.
Prime Video used chaos testing to discover and prevent a customer-impacting failure, and then released an open-source library to help the developer community.