https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Netflix News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-oci-agent/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Netflix-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-oci-agent/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1786886403321.jpg"/><p>Netflix open-sourced an agentic workflow for Observational Causal Inference (OCI) that reduces toil in causal analysis. Given observational data and the human user's analysis plan, the agent uses an actor-critic loop to estimate causality, write a report, and suggest next steps.</p> <i>By Anthony Alford</i> Agents Agentic AI Architecture Netflix AI, ML & Data Engineering news Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-oci-agent/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Netflix-news Anthony Alford 2026-08-18T13:00:00Z /news/2026/08/netflix-oci-agent/en https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Netflix-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/en/headerimage/Netflix-Service-Topology-Header-1784725848359.jpeg"/><p>Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate intermediary resolution from enrichment and persistence, propagates backpressure to Kafka rather than dropping records, and uses server-sent events instead of gRPC for high-volume internal transfers.</p> <i>By Eran Stiller</i> Distributed Systems Microservices gRPC eBPF Netflix Apache Kafka Distributed Tracing Architecture & Design news Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:20:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Netflix-news Eran Stiller 2026-08-11T12:20:00Z /news/2026/08/netflix-service-topology/en