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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 This multi-pass strategy , previously employed for our mobile encodes , allows us to avoid over-allocating bits to less complex content, as compared to using a complexity-defined, albeit fixed, bitrate for the entire title.

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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

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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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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. Doug is a freelance mobile performance expert, a popular speaker – particularly on the topic of web tuning and image optimization – and the author of High Performance Android Apps. Doug Sillars. Doug Sillars.

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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.