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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 264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. and have only increased both our device and content reach since then. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. For instance, in the case of poor performance, you can seamlessly toggle a feature flag and mitigate any detrimental effects.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This data is from the 2007 presentation.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #4: Recap with Rich Howard

Rigor

Reading time 8 min Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. Retrospectives.

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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. The preloader is the most important performance improvement browsers ever made. Enter the Preloader.

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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. Video Inspection Service (VIS): This service takes a mezzanine as the input and performs various inspections. This service takes a mezzanine as the input and performs analysis to understand the content complexity.

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

All Things Distributed

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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