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My Activity Report For 2016

The Polyglot Developer

It has been a long year being an advocate of technology and I thought it would be a good idea to share everything that has happened to The Polyglot Developer and all of its networks. Below you’ll find statistics that may help you if you’re planning on creating a blog or developing a course.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. The arrival of HDR-VMAF allowed us to create HDR streams with DO applied, i.e., HDR-DO encodes. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

The Netflix TechBlog

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. In this tech blog, we’ll dive deep into what high-quality audio is, how we deliver it to members worldwide, and why it’s so important to us. We needed to support these choices better.

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Synthetic monitoring of internal applications extended to Windows-based ActiveGates!

Dynatrace

Having the ability to monitor the performance and availability of your organization’s internal applications—in addition to your organization’s customer-facing applications—from within your corporate network is an important benefit of synthetic monitoring. Windows 2016 Server (or a supported Linux distribution ).

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born. Any failures in the stack break the hypothesis. Blast radius. That’s a good thing.