Remove 2007 Remove Cache Remove Development Remove Traffic
article thumbnail

Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and 264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. which we originally used as a quality measure, before we developed VMAF.

article thumbnail

The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #4: Recap with Rich Howard

Rigor

He goes into detail covering the steps that need to be taken to ensure that a website or application is prepared for an influx of traffic, from scoping and testing to setting expectations and creating a contingency plan. “There are a lot of different scenarios where you will be expecting more traffic than normal.”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

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).

article thumbnail

A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

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. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 128