2016 Availability Efficiency Hardware 
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams. AV1-libaom compression efficiency as measured against VP9-libvpx.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams. AV1-libaom compression efficiency as measured against VP9-libvpx.
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Dynatrace
OCTOBER 28, 2021
The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based.
ACM Sigarch
APRIL 26, 2018
HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Compared with Google Pixel 1, the HDR photography is accelerated by 5x and the power efficiency increased by 10x. SPU: Stream Processing Unit (SPU) is related to the specialized hardware to process the data streams of video.
Brendan Gregg
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.
The Morning Paper
MAY 21, 2019
” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Zswap is readily available and runs as a swap device in the Linux kernel. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. Evaluation.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.
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