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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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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

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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. During this time, we completed the migration of all necessary functionalities from Reloaded, began gradually shifting over traffic one use case at a time, and completed the switchover in September of 2023.

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The Ever Given is Not a Black Swan Event

The Agile Manager

The disruption is not simply the result of a ship running aground and blocking traffic in a busy, narrow passageway. Though supremely efficient at sea, Emma and the even larger ships that followed in her wake became a nightmare. This has caused considerable disruption to global supply chains.