The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video. We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. is the story nearly as thrilling and emotional?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. Video encoding is essentially a search problem?—?the

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams. AV1-libaom compression efficiency as measured against VP9-libvpx.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams. AV1-libaom compression efficiency as measured against VP9-libvpx.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. However, the execution of this header is bound by the response’s TTFB, which on high-latency networks can be very, very high.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). Appeal Of Videos. Large preview ). Business Performance.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Due to the widespread adoption and rich ecosystem of available PHP libraries, all types of security vulnerabilities can be found in PHP applications.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

— of the many, many plugins available for handling images. Video files? This article is the first of a brief two-part series where we will look specifically at the media you are most likely to use: images, video, and audio. That means we will have to use vanilla methods for videos and audio in Gatsby.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Modern web applications rely heavily on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations (for example, web analytics, tag managers, chat bots, A/B testing tools, ad providers, and more). This approach was already at its limit back in 2008 when an Akamai CDN network had only ~25,000 delivery nodes. Dynatrace news.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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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. The library is available in the artifactory repository for easy installation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Blast radius.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Dynatrace news.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Image Optimization Images are pieces of content in many contexts, and they are a very important and prominent part of the WaterBear app’s experience, from video posters and category banners to partner logos and campaign image assets. After scrolling the video category page, a bunch more images are loaded.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Dynatrace news.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In this paper, we examine the advertising and tracking ecosystems of Over-The-Top ("OTT") streaming devices, which deliver Internet-based video content to traditional TVs/display devices. smart TVs) to facilitate the delivery of Internet-based video content. streaming sticks and boxes) or enable functionality within a TV (e.g.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

The much-anticipated update to Lighthouse is now available to SpeedCurvers as part of our latest test agent updates. now use a much faster network connection. This video tutorial covers the latest Lighthouse updates, as well as demonstrating a sample Favorite dashboard you can create for stakeholders of Lighthouse.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten. I’d even use it to manage datacenter failover or failover for other cloud vendors, as what you really need is a highly available control plane that is totally independent of your own failure modes.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While this is a key capability, as k8s will restart pods that are unhealthy, it doesn’t guarantee that services exposed via Ingress are also available and responding within your SLAs to those that rely on these services: your end-users or service consumers outside k8s that call your services. Deploying a new application including ingress.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

You will be automatically logged in to all of them; Social login : Authenticate using your preferred social network profile; Multi-Factor Authentication ; Multiple standard protocols are allowed, such as OpenID Connect, JSON Web Token, or OAuth 2.0; SDK available to use in our app. We will have some YouTube video URLs.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. Save Data API.

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Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re a long-time video game player like me, your muscle-memory vividly remembers the F5 key’s location on your keyboard. Why are we talking about video games when we have important business (let’s say, selling video games) to do? But unlike in video games, we have the power to introduce savepoints wherever we want.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. Both examples check something is available before using it. Callum Hart.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. These rules determine to which origin data center each request will be directed, based on customer-defined conditions, within the Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure.‍For What is “Origin”?An

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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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Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

Today, when people are working from home, they are using personal or company-provided laptops to connect to the office network. In such a case, the infrastructure is required to be robust and stable to provide 24*7 available testing environments for automation testing. The most common and annoying is internet connectivity issues.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Some of the apps now available on iPhone or Android may help with some of the realization by telling us how much time we spend gaming, emailing or watching YouTube on our phone. One of my favorite videos that I personally have watched three or four times, is a video by Max Joseph on how to read more. Networking.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

This feature, supported by each of the larger servers (Apache, IIS, nginx), is mainly used for video playback. If a user jumps to the end of a video, it would not be very efficient to load the complete video before the user can finally see the desired part. Pre-compiled builds for Windows and Linux are available here: [link].

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Apica

APRIL 1, 2022

This created a tipping point in the organization to help deliver a solution that would not only meet this need but easily tie into the existing platform and any network environment. They interface to differing degrees with network services, third-party APIs, and older legacy apps, creating a great deal of complexity. 3270 Terminal.

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