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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

This is only one of many microservices that make up the Prime Video application. A real-time user experience analytics engine for live video, that looked at all users rather than a subsample. His first edition in 2015 was foundational, and he updated it in 2021 with a second edition. Finally, what were they building?

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and Over the course of the four years it became clear that I enjoyed combining analytical skills with solving real world problems, so a PhD in Statistics was a natural next step. In other words, the content you’re about to watch needs to load quickly with high video quality.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. CORE The CORE team uses Python in our alerting and statistical analytical work.

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Complete Guide - How to Speed up GIF Videos

KeyCDN

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. There’s a debate among web developers whether or not animated image formats should be ditched altogether in favor of video formats.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Smashing Magazine

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. With video. Two embeds.