All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

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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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Bug management : It takes screenshots, logs, and detailed videos of bugs and crashes. Analytics & reports: Testsigma’s reports and analytics dashboard is highly customizable. It offers precise insights into efficiency, productivity, and test performance in multiple environments. 24×7 support.

Testing 52

Testing Testing Tools Analytics Website 52

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Bug management: It generates screenshots, logs, and comprehensive videos of bugs and crashes and reports them through exhaustive reports via email, Slack, Teams, etc. It also shares Selenium log files and metadata for developers to debug efficiently. Besides, AI auto-heals at least 70% of error-prone areas or patterns.

Testing 52

Testing Analytics Testing Tools Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

The application is a combination of neural embeddings , which encode the semantic information in words and sentences, and locality sensitive hashing , which efficiently assigns approximately nearby items to the same buckets and faraway items to different buckets. Erica Sinclair and locality-preserving hashing What about clustering?

Development 177

Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The first goal is to demonstrate how generative AI can bring key business value and efficiency for organizations. While technologies have enabled new productivity and efficiencies, customer expectations have grown exponentially, cyberthreat risks continue to mount, and the pace of business has sped up. What is predictive AI?

AWS 206

AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 206

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

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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Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Analytics & reports: Fetches real-time test performance results; lets you monitor team development and user activity to derive actionable insights. from the same place. Signup Now.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Testing Analytics Mobile 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Detect a regression in a test case.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

If you can collect the relevant data (and that’s a big if), the problem shifts to analytics. Connecting data from different systems, stitching process steps together, calculating delays between steps, alerting on business exceptions and technical issues, and tracking SLOs are just some of the requirements for an effective analytics solution.

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Processing Monitoring Analytics C++ 247

Dynatrace

MARCH 21, 2024

Dynatrace observability, security, and data analytics capabilities empower users to derive greater insights and benefits from their monitoring data, ensuring they stay ahead in their mobile monitoring environments while offering similar feature parity to Visual Studio.

Mobile 174

Mobile Monitoring Analytics IoT 174

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. Problem Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Are we embedding YouTube videos? An embedded YouTube video typically adds about a megabyte of data transfer before anyone even interacts with it. If only a fraction of our users are actually going to sit and watch the embedded video on our website, could we just link to it instead? Scrutinise Everything.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Testsigma

MAY 24, 2021

Robust Reporting Features : The platform comes with powerful test analytics and reporting that is customizable according to the user’s requirements. The reporting includes screenshots, video recordings, logs, and detailed reports to cover on all grounds. Sign up Now.

Website 52

Website Testing Operating System Testing Tools 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ). Done with the analytical check, I moved on to user interviews. So, welcome to my edX audit.

Education 83

Education Website Google Design 83

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unoptimized content (generally images) Slow WordPress themes Sluggish WordPress plugins A huge number of HTTP requests from external sources Not utilizing a specifically dedicated resource to serve content (video hosting, CDN, etc.) Occasionally, they are for adding functionalities like social media sharing, analytics, etc.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Some of the benefits organizations seek from digital transformation journeys include the following: Increased DevOps automation and efficiency. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. Improved customer experience. Turn off the tools you no longer need. Take advantage of Dynatrace University.

Strategy 172

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 172

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. Procella achieves high scalability and efficiency by segregating storage (in Colossus) from compute (on Borg).

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. It also has a helpful element index that’s worth investigating in and of itself. Visit website 3. Visit website 14. Visit website 33. Visit website 36.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

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.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. In one request hitting just ten services, there might be ten different analytics dashboards and ten different log stores. What is Edgar?

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) And finally, we have an Apache Iceberg layer which stores assets in a denormalized fashion to help answer heavy queries for analytics use cases. are stored in secure storage layers.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

smart cameras & analytics) to interactive/immersive environments and autonomous driving (e.g. One such example is activity recognition in motion video (such as LRCN , Convnets ) which may entail running combinations of both convolutional as well as recurrent neural networks simultaneously. Quality vs Bandwidth.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

In this article, we’ll explain how a proper email testing workflow can help you improve email sending efficiency. Even if you included a small PNG picture, there’s no guarantee that it will be properly displayed across all email clients and devices — let alone more complex elements, such as video or animation.

Testing 109

Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 109

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video. With video.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Website Airlines 101

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This includes building websites, hosting websites, managing campaigns, SEO, analytics, CRM, and much more. In order to create change across our entire organization, we needed to get all the relevant employees, partners, and even customers up to speed about performance quickly and efficiently. Creating A Performance Culture.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

It didn’t take long for some elements to be built out that were kind of like others, like a full-width homepage video and later videos on your product listing or a popup video modal. A div ID to initialize the video onto. ID of the YouTube video to load. Events (API is ready, video state changed, etc).

Performance 89

Performance Mobile Speed Code 89

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

For example, a budget can help them decide if a page should contain five images — or three images and one video — and still remain within the planned limits. If you splurge a lot of bytes on nonoptimal videos and images, the rich-media experience will not be so rich anymore. Appeal Of Videos. Large preview ).

Media 117

Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Several respondents also mentioned working with video: analyzing video data streams, video analytics, and generating or editing videos. Many of the applications involved summarization: news, legal documents and contracts, veterinary medicine, and financial information stand out.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. That’s where rules come in.

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Apart from video, where you generally know what you’re getting yourself into, images are by far the biggest culprit to data usage on the web. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Google analytics has ‘low’ priority. Read “ Efficiently load JavaScript with defer and async ” for more information.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Since then we’ve introduced Amazon Kinesis for real-time streaming data, AWS Lambda for serverless processing, Apache Spark analytics on EMR, and Amazon QuickSight for high performance Business Intelligence. ElastiCache for Redis Multi-AZ capability is built to handle any failover case for Redis Cluster with robustness and efficiency.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Just like how a traffic cop ensures cars flow smoothly at an intersection, a Load Balancer makes sure data moves efficiently across the network. That’s where rules come in.

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

I sometimes record my screen and then slow down the video to find the layout shifts. DevTools might not be considered a classical auditing tool, but it helps us understand which CSS features are used, the efficiency of the code, and how it performs?—?all shows blue rectangles when the layout shift occurs. Frame Rendering Stats ?—?shows

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Code Media Cache Energy 110

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. This is why the async and deferred attributes are crucial, as they ensure an efficient, seamless web browsing experience. We can then forward this data to a custom analytics service. One of the key Next.js

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74