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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and In this blog post, we introduce recently implemented changes to our per-title encodes that are expected to lower the bitrate streamed by over 20%, on average, while maintaining a similar level of perceived quality.

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Tasktop Turns 15, Turning the Tide on More and More Transformations

Tasktop

On January 12th, 2007, I defended my Ph.D. And a wonderful history it has been, with Gail continuing to be involved throughout the company’s history (listen to my podcast with her here ) and Rob playing as critical a role as ever as Tasktop’s VP of Product Strategy. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary.

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MSMQ is dead

Particular Software

See our blog post What does idempotent mean? Our solution architects are ready to help you come up with the best strategy for your specific situation. Summary In 2007, the very first version of NServiceBus was a wrapper around MSMQ. for more details. Contact us any time and we'll talk.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. He keeps an updated archive of his blogs, articles, speaking engagements. You can find Barry blogging at tunetheweb.com or follow him on Twitter @ tunetheweb.

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Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

Percona

In this blog post, I’ll dig into MySQL query optimization and show how MySQL uses indexes in cases of queries using sorting and limiting. The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. However, this has caused a real issue, and we would call it a bug.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. Only 9% of companies flourished after a recession, and the strategies employed by the post-recession winners were surprising. The pandemic affects everyone.

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Home Screen Advantage

Alex Russell

This was all wrapped in a peevish, belligerant presentation, which the good folks over at The Platform Law Blog have covered in depth. Mozilla spokesperson The obvious strategy is to raise costs and lower the value of porting browsers to iOS. This is another example of Apple creating barriers to prevent true browser competition on iOS.

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