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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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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly

It is a dark pattern, a map to suboptimal outcomes rather than the true path to competition, innovation and the creation of robust companies and markets. In a well-functioning market, many startups would have explored a technology innovation like on-demand transportation over a much longer period.

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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. And a wonderful history it has been, with Gail continuing to be involved throughout the company’s history (listen to my podcast with her here ) and Rob playing as critical a role as ever as Tasktop’s VP of Product Strategy. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades. The pandemic affects everyone. Many are gearing up right now to hire your best staff.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications. Luke also founded LukeW Ideation & Design , a product strategy and design consultancy, and he taught graduate interface design courses at the University of Illinois.