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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 These are summarized below: Instead of relying on other objective metrics, such as PSNR†, VMAF is employed to guide optimization decisions. and have only increased both our device and content reach since then. 264/AVC Main profile per-title 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. 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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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. I grew profoundly concerned watching IT budgets balloon into billions of dollars per year, without metrics in place to measure value delivered. The pandemic affects everyone.

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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

The basic idea of the framework is to use an economic metric such as gross margin as the optimization objective and consider it a function of possible retailer’s actions such as marketing campaigns or assortment adjustments. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

Because the assets that drive competitiveness through operations are delivered through a high-capability IT staff, unit cost minimisation is not a viable strategy if IT is to drive alpha returns. It suffers no shortage of metrics, but very few are business-facing. Strategic IT is therefore an investment in capability.