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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. The specification of AV1 was published in 2018.

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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. In the first two weeks in April , this state has had more web traffic than it had experience in 2020 to date.

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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. pic.twitter.com/k6obyVZGZP — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 11 May, 2020. This is the danger of the print media hack.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. But over time, something went very wrong.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. Instead, Fruit Co.