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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. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. However, the inclusion of the HugePages feature allows the Linux kernel to efficiently handle substantial memory pages alongside the standard 4KB size. As such, it is generally recommended to disable THP for most database workloads.

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Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

Percona

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. While sorting may seem simple, it’s important to understand how to do it efficiently and effectively to ensure your queries are optimized and use better indexing.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. were a subject of intensive research over the last century, if not longer.

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

The Agile Manager

An efficient, risk-assuming IT capability is a superb utility that contains cost. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007. 2 Michael Porter made the case in Competitive Strategy that competition on price isn't sustainable; we should expect nothing different for an IT utility.

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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.