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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. That code may take the form of dozens of microservices running as asynchronous processes and communicating over a network. How do you think about complexity when writing or maintaining software that may outlive its developers? It certainly does.

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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 In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

In order to satisfy this requirement, ML practitioners had to develop bespoke triggering and orchestration components per pipeline. Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in the Nordics help customers migrate to the cloud.

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