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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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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations.

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

High Scalability

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. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Infrastructure Optimization.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners.

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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. Finally, relevant abstractions allow media algorithm developers to focus on the manipulation of video and audio signals rather than on infrastructural concerns. Over the years, the system expanded to support various new use cases.

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Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

The Agile Manager

Software development capacity, IT infrastructure, and software as a service are all examples of risk assumption. It must do so across a broad spectrum of roles (quality engineer, developer, DBA, network engineer) with regard to a wide variety of factors (e.g., Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007.