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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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. What happened?

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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. For the streaming use case, the generated videos are deployed to our content delivery network (CDN) for Netflix members to consume. These videos can easily be watched millions of times.

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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. Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. Delayed five years. Gamepad API. fetch() and Streams.

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

The Agile Manager

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., An efficient, risk-assuming IT capability is a superb utility that contains cost. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007. The core opportunity lies with people.

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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. Egnyte was founded in 2007.