The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

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. Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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. were a subject of intensive research over the last century, if not longer. Applications.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

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.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52