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Gossip Protocol in Social Media Networks: Instagram and Beyond

DZone

This article will discuss the gossip protocol in detail, followed by its potential implementation in social media networks, including Instagram. Gossip Protocol The gossip protocol is based on an epidemic algorithm that uses randomized communication to propagate information among nodes in a network.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. Therefore, it requires more messages to perform a handshake and two network round trips. improvement in media rebuffers.

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Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Juan Diego RodrĂ­guez 2023-10-09T11:00:00+00:00 2023-10-09T21:07:06+00:00 Working with media files in Gatsby might not be as straightforward as expected. I remember starting my first Gatsby project. banner { background-image: url("./assets/images/forest-400.jpg");

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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

Note that the CSS file is marked as blocking (see the orange cross), and thus carries Highest priority and hits the network first. priority request, and hits the network after the JavaScript. By switching from an asynchronous media type (i.e. media=print ) to a synchronous media type (e.g. Moving Away From media.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. media search index, locations search index, and so forth) in future. For instance, the LikeEvent can be read by the Media Counter Service and is used to update the media count in the data storage.

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How To Implement Video Information and Editing APIs in Java

DZone

Not only has near-infinitely scalable cloud storage reduced the burden of storing large video files, but CDNs (content delivery networks) deployed by video streaming and social media giants in this timeframe have all but eliminated those slow server-to-client buffering times, which initially plagued the user experience.