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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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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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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. A key pattern that is understood by the tech giants, who have mastered the Age of Software, is that of network effects and exponential growth. The pandemic affects everyone.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. Chrome UX Report @ ChromeUXReport. Cloudflare @ Cloudflare. Fastly @ fastly.

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Home Screen Advantage

Alex Russell

Mozilla spokesperson The obvious strategy is to raise costs and lower the value of porting browsers to iOS. A social network without notifications? Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" Removal of one would be a crisis. Apple's engineering the PWApocalypse.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

The Agile Manager

It must do so across a broad spectrum of roles (quality engineer, developer, DBA, network engineer) with regard to a wide variety of factors (e.g., Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007. Certainly, it is not simple: executive IT management must be able to analyse risk factors of individuals and teams (e.g.,