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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized. 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. 263–1–8 (2023) [ online ] [2] A. The graphic below (Fig. Choudhury, L. Krasula, S.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

What I learned at GlueCon 2023 — Tipping Points and Generative AI The final slide of my GlueCon keynote featuring a sunset over a pool in Maui — picture by Adrian I’ve presented at GlueCon many times over the last decade or so. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Cloud observability delivers on business value

Dynatrace

According to a recent Forbes articles, Internet users are creating 2.5 According to data cited by McConnell, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform grew in the last quarter, ending in June [2023] and jointly delivered almost $50 billion. quintilion bytes of data each day. McConnell said. Unified observability.

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TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

Dynatrace

Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. Scanned our internal network with  nmap.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. But over time, something went very wrong.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

These algorithms save everyone time and money: by helping users navigate through thousands of products to find the ones with the highest quality and the lowest price, and by expanding the market reach of suppliers through Amazon’s delivery infrastructure and immense customer network.