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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 This multi-pass strategy , previously employed for our mobile encodes , allows us to avoid over-allocating bits to less complex content, as compared to using a complexity-defined, albeit fixed, bitrate for the entire title.

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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. Transparent Huge Pages can conflict with these built-in memory management strategies, disrupting the balance of the system, degrading performance, and potentially impacting query response times.

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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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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. He has said, “By moving a large part of our IT system from our old IBM mainframe to AWS, we have adopted a cloud first strategy, boosting our power of innovation.

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

Percona

However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems. You must understand how to use indexes to make sorting cheaper. Looking at this, can you say which is faster: LIMIT 1 or LIMIT 10 ?

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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.