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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. Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” was the best-performing single of the calendar year. The first Transformers movie came out.

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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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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. At the same time, we avoid academic results with little or no empirical support.

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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. Even after gaining access, one needed to deal with the challenges of homogeneity across different assets in terms of decoding performance, size, metadata, and general formatting.

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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. It provides guarantees for availability, performance and completeness for delivery of identified, regimented services or functionality. Traditionally, IT has been a risk assumer.

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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. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.