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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix headquarters circa 2014. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. There exists at least one other alternative open-source AV1 encoder, rav1e. What is SVT-AV1?

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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Docker Swarm First introduced in 2014 by Docker, Docker Swarm is an orchestration engine that popularized the use of containers with developers. Kubernetes Also developed in 2014 and often referred to as K8s, Kubernetes has emerged as a de facto standard for container orchestration, surpassing Docker Swarm and Apache Mesos in popularity.

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What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. Open Source. In 2014 I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. We see acquisitions in the commercial sector on the top of open source too. Well, yes and no.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

Dynatrace

I f there was any company that was positioned to understand those problems and limitations of containers before anyone else, it was Google. . ? it announced Kubernetes , an open-source project based on the experience and lessons learned from Borg and Omega. . GKE (Google Cloud Platform) .

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