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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 and thus fall back to less efficient encode families. Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. 264/AVC Main profile family.

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Happy 15th, Tasktop! Happy 5th, Tasktop Hub!

Tasktop

January 17, 2007: Dr. Mik Kersten, Dr. Gail Murphy and Robert Elves founded Tasktop. Just to put it in context, here are some other highlights from 2007: Apple iPhone was announced and launched. Here is the announcement about the founding of the company a couple months after the incorporation [link]. .

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Everyone a Beginner?

The Agile Manager

A development company is in the invention or innovation business. Investors and customers place high value on efficiency and reliability. To wit: the ribbon interface that replaced the command menus in Microsoft Office 2007 was not met with enthusiasm. There is low tolerance for operational inconsistency.

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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 rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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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. Conclusion and Future Work The intersection of media and ML holds numerous prospects for innovation and impact. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Fisher, 2007. Khan and D. Jain, 2005. Levin, 2013. Marlin, 2004.

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

The Agile Manager

Thus leadership and its derivative characteristics - notably innovation and responsiveness - are the result of calculated, not wanton, risk taking. They compete on cost (through, for example, labour arbitrage or volume discounts) as opposed to differentiation on value (that is, as drivers of innovation or invention.)