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Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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.

Architecture

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing

The Fight For The Main Thread

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

All of that is dumped on any given page in one fell swoop courtesy of Google Tag Manager (GTM), which allows us to deploy and run scripts without having to go through the pain of re-deploying the entire site. As a result, adding and executing scripts is a fairly trivial task.

Google

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics

Digital Business Analytics: Let’s get started!

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Common properties associated with each request have long enabled flexible filtering and analysis; for example, you could evaluate performance and errors associated only with mobile Safari users in South America. Long a RUM best practice, these milestones are configured as conversion goals , leveraging common marketing terminology.

Analytics

Analytics Metrics Best Practices Servers

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 1: StatsD)

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the blog series where we give you a deeper dive into the latest awesomeness around Dynatrace : how we bring scale, zero configuration, automatic AI driven alerting, and root cause analysis to all your custom metrics, including open source observability frameworks like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus. Dynatrace news.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Traffic

More Effective AI to Human Interactions with Dynatrace DAVIS at NYCM

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Automating tasks, e.g: As with the previous blogs I wrote based on his input, he started the discussion with an email saying: “At NYCM we are using Dynatrace DAVIS for full-stack monitoring. Blog: Custom Process Group Naming for large environments. Take an alternative route due to a bad traffic jam! Doc: Define custom services.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Mobile Java Processing

Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

WordPress came a long way from its start as a simple blog writing tool. A long 15 years later it became the number one CMS choice for developers and non-developers alike. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress.

Cache

Cache Website Speed Database

10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). Among (many) other things, you can see which of your scripts have excessive Long Task times (more than 50ms), which could be hurting the interactivity of your pages.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring

Reactjs vs React Native – Differences, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Let’s discover the answers in this blog comparing ReactJS vs React Native. Long data hierarchy. These errors might prove so complicated that finding them out and solving it might become a tedious task. It uses HTML tags. It does not use HTML tags. Which one is better among them? Longer Initialization Time.

Mobile

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? However, as long as there is no established endorsement of the performance culture, each decision will turn into a battlefield of departments, breaking up the organization into silos. How to get there?

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

For Jo

Alex Russell

JULY 4, 2013

This was originally drafted as response to [Jo Rabin’s blog post] discussing a meetup the W3C TAG hosted last month. Your post mirrors some of my own thinking about what the TAG can be good for. Repairing these sorts of issues is what the TAG, organizationally, is suited to do. and extensibility.

Games

Games Architecture Design Processing

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Therefore, it helps if designers or the people doing the prototype test with very short and very long strings to make sure the design still fits. These were stored as one big svg tag in the HTML head of the page, with a symbol for each of the icons that was then used as a linked svg in the HTML’s body. Icon Loading. Large preview ).

Performance

Performance Cache Website Mobile

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts let us see a cascade effect over several tasks, and in the matter of a few seconds, the user can see how bad/good the performance of the website is, such as how many resources are blocking parallel downloads or how many rows exist. If there are long purple bars in the waterfall chart.

Performance

Performance Cache Website Speed

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Waterfall charts let us see a cascade effect over several tasks, and in the matter of a few seconds, the user can see how bad/good the performance of the website is, such as how many resources are blocking parallel downloads or how many rows exist. If there are long purple bars in the waterfall chart. How to Make Websites Load Faster.

Performance

Performance Cache Website Speed

Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. How long does it take to recover from a database failure in your current setup? Because most SPOFs are a consequence of scale, the risk of downtime only gets worse as the environment grows. If so, what are the legal liabilities?

Availability

Availability Open Source Architecture Database

Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Earlier this year, I shared the HTML boilerplate I like to use when starting new web projects with line-by-line explanations on my blog. It’s a collection of mostly <head> tags and attributes I usually use on every website I build. 2021-06-28T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. Navigation. Jump to online workshops ?.

Code

Code Social Media Media Website

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Chrome devtools screenshot of the DOM, where I’ve expanded one inline style tag. If I really did have to limit my data usage in the long term, one of the first things I’d do is disable JavaScript. In practice, no browser is going to cache for an entire year , but it will cache the asset for as long as makes sense.

Cache

Cache Google Mobile Network

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Editing a blog post in MovableType 2.0 Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” Blog aware.

Ecommerce

Ecommerce Website Government Internet

Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ensure the titles are appropriate for a broad audience, which means all titles need to be tagged with metadata. If you recall in our previous blog post , Growth Engineering owns a service called the Orchestration Service. Even with high performance VMs, generating 1000s of assets can take a long time. We’re hiring!

Engineering

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment

Building The SSG I’ve Always Wanted: An 11ty, Vite And JAM Sandwich

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Or you choose something like NextJS for those powerful components, only to struggle with the learning curve of React, or needless KB of JavaScript on a static blog post? This was no simple task as a React devotee. List taken from this post on my personal blog. As long as that main.js For example, a blog-post.md

Website

Website Servers Code Programming

SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Kapil building and validating behavior on the Linux kernel changes for xfs ( Note : I have tagged it xfs opt (xfs optimizations) in this document for reference.) · Amit, Lee, Vaqar and Mike handling release activities and documentation. Fua has been a long-standing part of the SCSI specifications. Fua = Forced Unit Access.

Servers

Servers Media Cache Storage

HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You may have read some blog posts or heard conference talks on this topic and think you know the answers. Secondly, while Google initiated the QUIC project, the final protocols we’re talking about today were designed by a much wider team in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1).

Transportation

Transportation Internet Internet Network

Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc. The concept of a computer being able to speak with a human-like voice goes back almost as long as ENIAC (the first electronic programmable computer).

AWS

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog. How long have you been working on it? Each incoming request on the core service node is tagged and classified into various groups. Document store. Video Transcoding. Permissions. Recommendations. Hybrid Sync. On prem data processing. Offline access.

Architecture

Architecture Cache Azure Storage

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Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content

The Fight For The Main Thread

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Digital Business Analytics: Let’s get started!

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 1: StatsD)

More Effective AI to Human Interactions with Dynatrace DAVIS at NYCM

Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress

10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Reactjs vs React Native – Differences, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

For Jo

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

Building The SSG I’ve Always Wanted: An 11ty, Vite And JAM Sandwich

SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)

Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

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