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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 Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. Our team is always looking to innovate and to find ways to improve our members’ experiences through more efficient encodes.

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Tasktop Turns 15, Turning the Tide on More and More Transformations

Tasktop

On January 12th, 2007, I defended my Ph.D. In the past year, all of the innovation that Tasktop has been creating for the past 15 years has been critical in turning the tide of digital transformations. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary. thesis, which explored a new approach to focus and flow for developers.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Feature value storage We store embeddings in Amber , which guarantees immutability, versioning, auditing, and various metrics on top of the feature values. Conclusion and Future Work The intersection of media and ML holds numerous prospects for innovation and impact. Amber handles the computation in the dependency chain recursively.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

The end of the Turning Point marks the start of the Deployment Period , when the production capital of that age’s innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. . These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. Maximiliano Firtman.

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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.

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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. The gross margin metric, in the sense it is used in the equations (1.2)

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