The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Fixed-ladder HDR encodes have been fully replaced by optimized ones, reducing storage footprint and Internet data usage — and most importantly, improving the video quality for our members.

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DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

The Importance of DNS for a Healthy Internet. If DNS infrastructure goes down, all the digital services relying on it go down with it. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet’s address system. Picking a DNS vendor is one of the most important choices you can make when it comes to the reliability of your services.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. Customers can choose between 11 regions around the world today and, in addition to Korea, we are adding regions in India, a second region in China, and Ohio in 2016.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

billion internet users today. com also says that in 2008 there were 112 different types of browsers people were using to access the internet. 54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile. bn in 2016. You don’t want to pay for extra infrastructure. Read more about it here.

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. I wrote a blog in 2016 that discussed the need for businesses to flip the traditional monitoring investment pyramid on its head.

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J. Paul Reed

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the vein of my 2016 prediction that DevOps will continue dis-integrating , I believe that we’ll see a process of “ othering ” with definitions of DevOps that are not highly aligned with the The Handbook’s definition, along with pressure to rename those ideas to soemthing other than “DevOps.” And we now have that.

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