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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 In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require.

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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That code may take the form of dozens of microservices running as asynchronous processes and communicating over a network. But that’s not really how the world works, not now, and not back in 2007. Most professional programmers work on large systems that can consist of thousands of functions and millions of lines of code.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

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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. Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months).

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

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io.

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007.