Hulu Tech blog

Migrating Hulu’s Hadoop Clusters to a New Data Center — Part One: Extending our Hadoop Instance

Behind the Scenes with Yue Zhuge, VP Research & Development and General Manager, Hulu Beijing

Scaling Hulu Live Streaming for Large Events: March Madness and Beyond

By Andrew McVeigh, Principal Architect and Justin Goad, Senior Technical Program Management Lead

For many of our viewers, Hulu’s live TV service is their destination for major TV and…

Building Hulu’s Living Room Experience with Amazon Alexa

by Ling Shi, Principal Software Development Lead

Smart home device use is expanding rapidly — almost a third of all households in the US used a smart speaker to make a purchase in Q4 2017. With more…

Building the Hulu Experience in the Living Room

Hulu Moves Data Centers to 100 Percent Renewable Energy Facility

Author: Rafael Soltanovich, Vice President, Software Development

It takes a lot of energy to connect millions of viewers across the United States with the content they love. With a tech team of…

Introducing the Hulu Technical Landscape

Author: Andrew McVeigh, Principal Architect

As the chief architect at Hulu, one of my key responsibilities is to understand our systems architecture and how the pieces fit together. We are breathing new life into our tech blog so…

Applying Deep Learning to Collaborative Filtering: How Hulu builds its industry leading recommendation engine

Author: Yin Zheng

Modern online services rely heavily on recommendation systems to help users find items that they…

Creating Hulu VR

Author: Julian Eggebrecht

Monaco-Efficiently Hosting 1.5TB of Redis Servers

Author: Keith Ainsworth

Redis has become an indispensable technology at Hulu as we continue to scale and innovate new features and products. Redis is a lightning-fast in memory key-object database with a very light…

DNS infrastructure at Hulu

Author: Kirill Timofeev

For companies running their own datacenter, setting up internal DNS infrastructure is essential for performance and ease of maintenance. Setting up a single DNS server for occasional requests is pretty straightforward, but scaling…