IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. We moved from centralized linear encoding to distributed chunk-based encoding.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? Our analysis suggests that the wireline paths, upper-layer protocols, computing and radio hardward architecture need to co-evolve with 5G to form an ecosystem, in order to fully unleash its potential. What about UHD video?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. For services, the gains were even more impressive. Conclusion If any of this piques your interest, reach out to us!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. These files are only used client-side.

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Particular Software

JULY 18, 2022

Apache Kafka is a partitioned log and is a similar product in architecture to Azure Event Hubs or Amazon Kinesis. While Kafka can deal with high traffic volumes, the right partition strategy is a key factor and will have a major impact on the scalability and elasticity of the whole system. What is Kafka? And that’s where you come in.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. We recently conducted a survey on serverless architecture adoption. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. This allows MongoDB to scale horizontally, handling large datasets and high traffic loads. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Download today.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Written by Colby Callahan , Megha Manohara , and Mike Azar. Things got hairy.

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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.) Most applications in content and studio engineering at Netflix deal with assets; such as videos, images, text, etc. are stored in secure storage layers.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We also apply additional business logic to handle constraints like maturity filtering and deduplication of videos. In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We also apply additional business logic to handle constraints like maturity filtering and deduplication of videos. In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We also apply additional business logic to handle constraints like maturity filtering and deduplication of videos. In the first approach, we use data from time-travel infrastructure built at Netflix to compute pages as they would have been at some point in the past.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

We love the reactive scalability, which lets us scale only the tables we need during our predicted traffic spikes and turn them down during quieter times, paying only for the exact resources we needed. The seamless integration with the rest of the AWS infrastructure, especially CloudWatch, made real-time monitoring a cinch.â??.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. Behind the scenes, Netflix infrastructure has already kicked into gear, finding the fastest way to deliver your chosen content with great audio and video quality. It starts with having a good hypothesis and a clear decision framework?—?especially

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