The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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John McCalpin

OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm). The official announcement: SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. John D.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The rapid acceleration in technology brought on a new discovery and paradigm. The result is a design for SQL Server 2016 that provides high availability for the most demanding workloads on the latest hardware with minimal impact and scalable for the future. First, we looked at the overall architecture of the replica design.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Intel has been stuck at 14nm in the server space since the Broadwell release in Q4 of 2016. So, what has changed my mind? The Death of Tick-Tock.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Panglossian nonsense. --> Organisations that serve their tools tread water no matter how advanced their technology, while groups that intentionally manage systems can succeed on any stack. [1]. Teams that achieve Level 4 maturity are cautious acquirers of technology. Value Propositions #. but against what baseline?

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