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

The Netflix TechBlog

It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. Disk Caching? — ?

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WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

for the web app, Sanity CMS, Firebase Auth, and Firestore database. Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. My team measured the impact, noting that on the first load, this video category page serves up as many as 14 images. Here is how we tackled the challenge.

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Unlocking the Secrets of TOAST: How To Optimize Large Column Storage in PostgreSQL for Top Performance and Scalability

Percona

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This process is done automatically and does not significantly impact how the database is used.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. Definitions. Media Files.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

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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Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube

The Morning Paper

to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds. Fast recovery from the loss of any single machine Sophisticated strategies for handling stragglers, badly behaving tasks, and periodic unavailability.