The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. The top graph shows both the audio and video bitrate, along with the available network throughput. Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. We began streaming 5.1

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. Next Digital operates on AWS in a more highly available and fault-tolerant environment than their previous colocation solution.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. In 2010, having seemingly gone all-in with the tenets of open source development , the company brought MongoDB to the market as an open source database server. MongoDB is commonly referred to as source-available software.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. Scalability and replication options that can improve performance and high availability.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. The available operations are listed in our documentation. olurl=[link] Image Processing integration Image Processing is available for both Pull and Push Zones. WebP offers both lossy and lossless compression.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. And if they did have a poor experience, how would you know for sure?

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. Available at: [link]. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem.

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Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

In 2010, the Performance and Reliability team I was fortunate enough to lead at Walmartlabs shared our findings around the impact of front-end times on conversion rates. This concept is not new by any means. This study and a number of other case studies tracked over the years can be found at WPOstats.)

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a term that was defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010 according to which, design and development of web pages should be responsive to different screen size, platform, and orientation. Basically, the idea was to create web pages that look good on all devices and size screens. Lack of testing on real devices 2.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

Customers have access to 11 AWS regions around the globe, including two in the EU – Ireland (Dublin) and Germany (Frankfurt) – which are comprised of multiple Availability Zones for customers to build highly secure and available applications. The DPA is now available on request to all customers that require it.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

There are many typefaces, and many of them are very similar or are nearly identical to previous or contemporary versions available. We want to allow accessibility via OpenType or stylistic options with the typeface, so they are available to use if needed. These points could be extended to language support as well.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Please note that Amazon ElastiCache is currently available in the US East (Virginia) Region. It will be available in other AWS Regions in the coming months. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. For more hands-on information and to get started right away, see Jeff Barrs posting on the AWS Developer Blog.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. For more details on AWS in Japan see [link]. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather than a Spot Instance price per Region. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

Customers have access to 11 AWS regions around the globe, including two in the EU – Ireland (Dublin) and Germany (Frankfurt) – which are comprised of multiple Availability Zones for customers to build highly secure and available applications. The DPA is now available on request to all customers that require it.

Processing 61

Processing AWS Media Education 61

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Availability - The cloud makes it possible to build resilient applications to make sure they can survive different failure scenarios. By placing instances in different Availability Zones, developers can build systems that can survive many complex failure scenarios. Comments ().

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We’ll be posting abstracts (summaries) of the C++ and Beyond 2010 sessions over the coming days over at the C&B site. They are available today in several shipping C++ compilers, including Intel C++ 11, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and gcc 4.5. Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere. ” This is a brand new talk.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%.

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. It's great that the async attribute is available and well known, but synchronous script loading is still the default. The solution to these problems is to load scripts asynchronously. Async Adoption.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Comments (). HPC and Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

I am available to help you find and fix your site-speed issues through performance audits , training and workshops , consultancy , and more. From 2010: While site speed is a new signal, it doesn’t carry as much weight as the relevance of a page. But for many queries, there is lots of helpful content available.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In a nutshell, we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

There is a tremendous interest in using the AWS multi-Availability Zone features for disaster prevention and recovery in the wake of the March 11 earthquake. I will update this posting as more details about public events become available. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. It is likely that the Amazon Web Services will be used by many of the participants for their compute, storage, database and other cloud resource needs. APAC Summer Tour.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015!

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This chart is available on your Site dashboard and lets you quickly spot any issues. In 2010, only 1% of the top 1,000 websites used custom fonts. Again, you can't fix what you don't measure. We've made it easy for you to find out if your pages have critical blocking resources, such as CSS and JavaScript. Custom fonts.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

As with all AWS services and regions, information on GovCloud is publicly available on the AWS website, However, given the restrictive nature of this new AWS Region, customers will need to sign an AWS GovCloud Enterprise agreement that requires a manual step beyond the usual self-service signup process. More information. APAC Summer Tour.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

The thing about any crisis is that there's an expectation that there will eventually be a recovery, no matter long it takes to reach bottom and regardless the shape the recovery takes: V-shaped rebound as happened in in 1953, W-shaped as in 1981-82, U-shaped as in 1973-75 and again in 2000-03, or L-shaped as in 2008-2010.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

You are assured that your Reserved Instance will always be available in the Availability Zone in which you purchased it. This snapshot-restart technique is a well known methodology already available to many batch oriented applications. They can also specify the Availability Zone these Instances should be launched in.

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Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 1, 2017

When we started the “Parkour” project in 2010, members of the team had built something like a dozen JavaScript frameworks or component systems between them and those systems were powering the front-ends of billion-dollar businesses and used by thousands of engineers every day. When Different Isn’t Better.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 23, 2009

There are two other releases scheduled, one in March of 2010 and one sometime after that. I doubt if many educators (if any for that matter) will argue against the value of having the curriculum available to them. Each will contain a few more courses, as outlined in their roadmap. Get the Word Out.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 12, 2011

Availability becomes a skill for candidates. We still face these risks: recall that Irish banks passed the European stress tests in the summer of 2010, only to require recapitalization before the year was out. But inflation takes many forms. In this case, a bull market for labor will inflate career paths.

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Games Technology Technology Mobile 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Speaking events should be shared among staff who want to speak, and training can be made available to improve their skills (various companies offer this), so that Bob isn't the only good speaker. Grand Central Publishing, 2010. As for public speaking: Bob draws power from being a public face of the company. The No A **e Rule.

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