The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? That’s why we developed and launched high-quality audio. Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1 The participants seemed to lose motivation and develop mental fatigue. When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. It was a great privilege.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. More after jump!

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. For UX designers, product managers, developers - essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In fact, the opposite is true, thanks to an active and vibrant global community of developers who work continuously to improve open source software. Developers can customize the source code and try new applications without a big budget hit. Free of licensing restrictions, developers may access and modify the code.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Quick Summary : Frontend Frameworks are ubiquitous with web development. Web development is the latest trend in the industry these days. To prevent reinventing the wheel, developers use front end frameworks. Of all the available technologies, JavaScript popularity has shot up exponentially. Let’s begin!!

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React JS is one of the most common web app frameworks favoured by many developers due to its easy learning curve and reusability. Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Why do Developers look for Alternatives to React JS?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. If you want to be that team of 5-7 developer/designers you can sign up using this form.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. 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.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day. The Moto G7 very much looks the part.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Please also visit the AWS developer blog for more great stories from our South American customers. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

For more information: Head of Software Development  . a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels. CTO - Amazon.com. Other places. Recent Entries.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. So, what’s the solution? What is WebP? That’s not all.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

The number was just 296 million units ten years back in 2010 ( [link] ). We have grown accustomed and hooked to these devices which makes their application development a rather intense process. Frameworks and development tools also enhance the overall process reducing the efforts in application development.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

With Import into EBS customers can now develop arbitrary complex layouts as the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS and is not interpreting file system layouts, etc. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ). It is simple and elegant, as you would expect from someone who has won several design awards. It has been developed by Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub fame. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Amazon ElastiCache is compliant with Memcached , which makes it easy for developers who are already familiar with that system to start using the service immediately. For more hands-on information and to get started right away, see Jeff Barrs posting on the AWS Developer Blog. blog comments powered by Disqus. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. The developer writes single c functions dubbed a " kernel " that operate on data and are executed by multiple threads according to an execution configuration.Â

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Amazon S3 FTW! blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. Understanding the differences in the experiences of wealthy developers versus working-class users helps to make the diffuse surface of the privilege bubble perceptible. As we said in 2021, " 4G is a miracle, 5G is a mirage."

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 22 April 2010 05:17 PM. The ecosystem of new application and platform services in the cloud is the future of application development. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet. We have designed Route 53 to propagate updates very quickly and give the customer the tools to find out when all changes have been propagated.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Relaxing Durability.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For more details see the announcement , the details pages of the services at [link] , and the posting on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Next to that they are often doing specialized development for these customers, meaning that for each production environment there may also be development and testing environments running. A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. For more information on Multipart Upload and managing large objects in Amazon S3 , see Jeff Barrs blog posts on Amazon S3 Multipart Upload and Large Object Support as well as the Amazon S3 Developer Guide. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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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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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Designing Interface Animation by Val Head 5 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Past years.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind. Developers should be aware of these trade-offs, as they are not simply an esoteric concept only impacting the internals of the system.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. By placing instances in different Availability Zones, developers can build systems that can survive many complex failure scenarios. You can also find more information on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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