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. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Improvements in SQL Server 2016. The subject of this post is the additional changes that are enabled for metadata-only from SQL Server 2016 onward. ALTER COLUMN id bigint NOT NULL ; Thanks to the improvements in SQL Server 2016, this command changes metadata only , and completes immediately. CREATE TABLE dbo. ( SELECT.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. The following chart shows the same 1TB database testing. SQL Server 2016. or newer release.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.”

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

Before joining Microsoft in 1994 I worked at State Farm Insurance and spent several years in a testing group and later joined a team developing applications against SQL Server for OS/2. Then I cranked up the tests to high stress levels and they passed. That is exactly what I started doing in Mar 2016.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. The SQL Server Development team tasked several individuals with scalability improvements and real world testing patterns. – [link]. – [link]. Auto-soft NUMA.

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Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

I spent a year making plans to for the support changes needed, providing supportability feedback, testing debugger extensions and engaging in many other aspects of the project. By March of 2016 Slava had convinced me to join the team. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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