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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. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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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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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution.

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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. Nowadays this should be a baseline capability if you are trying to figure out how to improve an online service, or tune a personalization algorithm. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo

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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. We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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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. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. He’s also the author of HTTP/2 in Action , a complete guide to HTTP/2.