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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

Optimizing Video For Size And Quality. Optimizing Video For Size And Quality. Over the last few years, more and more projects are using video as an integral part of the application. However, it all goes sideways when there are issues related to the video playback. Doug Sillars. 2021-02-15T15:00:00+00:00. Real-World Data.

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. David Daly’s presentation at LTB 2020 , How to Waste Time and Money Test ing the Performance of a Software Product, is probably a good introduction [Video] — [Slides]. The MongoDB Podcast, Ep.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ).

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

GPU – Heavy graphic rendering and video editing. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test. Use caution if you plan to benchmark real production servers. Generation. Conclusion.

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Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” Check out his how-to videos on his YouTube channel as well as his performance related dispatches on Twitter @ paulcalvano.