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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and audio in codec agnostic container formats and provides features such as audio video synchronization, random access and DRM protection. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. is 220 Mbps.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. In the snippet above, we’re accessing the detail key for the video object with id 80154610.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Disk Caching? — ? Regional caching? —?Netflix

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Generating machine learning based personalized recommendations to discover new people, photos, videos, and stories relevant one’s interest. When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency. Users should be able to like and comment the posts.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance. However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video). Ford, et al., “TCP

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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