The Netflix TechBlog
AUGUST 10, 2020
we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and What we have improved on Keeping in mind our goal to maintain ubiquitous device support, we leveraged what we learned from innovations implemented during the development of newer encode families and have made a number of improvements to our H.264/AVC
John McCalpin
APRIL 2, 2020
The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
n0derunner
MAY 6, 2019
A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Primarily aimed at researchers and developers, but is relevant to anyone about to embark on a benchmarking effort. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching. Hybrid Sync.
Adrian Cockcroft
MARCH 21, 2020
picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. These practices are the basis for hypothesis driven development, as described in the book Lean Enterprise. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,
Alex Russell
APRIL 29, 2021
Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
239 
Let's personalize your content