The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. The first successful digital video standard was MPEG-2, which truly enabled digital transmission of video.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

With Dynatrace Cloud Automation and synthetic monitors, SREs can now rely on continuous validation of SLOs, presentation of the root cause when validation fails, and automatic problem remediation. DevOps teams can analyze user behavior analytics and, with Dynatrace Session Replay, video-like replay of individual user sessions.

Monitoring 193

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 193

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 156

Internet Internet Scalability Software Engineering 156

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., On the one-hand we have ‘cloud apps’ which make it easy to access our work from multiple devices and to collaborate online with others (e.g. Google Docs, Trello, …). The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The largest structure ever found in the early universe.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

In recent years, customer projects have moved towards complex cloud architectures, including dozens of microservices and different technology stacks which are challenging to develop, maintain, and optimize for resiliency. A decent solution is the W3C Trace context standard , created by Dynatrace, Google, Microsoft, and others.

Testing 210

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 210

High Scalability

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. heipei : It's Friday, I've been in a jumpsuit doing manual labor all day (crazy, I know) and weighing my options between passing out on the couch over some Youtube videos, reading the Friday @highscal blog post or writing code.

Internet 163

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 163

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, today’s highly dynamic cloud-native environments with containers, microservices, and platforms like Kubernetes, make it more challenging to ensure that applications are working as expected and that customers are adopting new features and generating conversions.

Analytics 200

Analytics Mobile Performance Monitoring 200

Testsigma

AUGUST 12, 2021

As per StatCounter , there are more than ten browsers in use with Google Chrome leading the way. This cloud-based testing tool comes with thousands of real devices with multiple browsers and OS combinations to perform real-time testing. It also takes screenshots and videos of bugs and crashes. Source: Dave Black/imgflip.

Testing 102

Testing Testing Tools Mobile Cloud 102

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

I recently shared some of my favourite research at Beyond Tellerrand (video here ) and thought it would be fun to round it up in a post. Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. This number has remained consistent throughout the centuries.

Speed 134

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 134

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

Testsigma : Testsigma is a cloud-based automation testing tool that supports continuous testing of browsers, native, and hybrid apps. It’s cloud-based and great for remote teams as they can access it from any location, device, and at any hour. Best Multi-browser Testing Tools. Picture Credit: MultiBrowser. Highlights. Highlights.

Testing Tools 74

Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

Google raised only $36 million in venture capital on its way to dominance. As von Thun notes, “These partnerships appear to be serving the same purpose as ‘killer acquisitions’ in the past—think of Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp or Google’s purchase of YouTube—raising serious concerns about fair competition in the fledgling AI market.”

Artificial Intelligence 61

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 61

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Then IE 11 support was dropped by Shopify and the clouds parted — it was our time. It didn’t take long for some elements to be built out that were kind of like others, like a full-width homepage video and later videos on your product listing or a popup video modal. A div ID to initialize the video onto.

Performance 89

Performance Mobile Speed Code 89

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server. I have 30 or 40 GB of photos.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2018

O’Reilly Media Podcast: JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud, on problem solving with containers and Kubernetes, and how developers can get started. In this episode of the O’Reilly Media Podcast, I talk with JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud. Interest in the platform is growing.

Development 73

Development Media Google Network 73

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. With 8 Google-designed custom IPU cores, each with 512 arithmetic logic units (ALUs), the Pixel Visual Core delivers raw performance of more than 3TOPS on a mobile power budget.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Testsigma

JUNE 17, 2021

A few years back, I gave my friend a keyword to search on Google and asked him to open the third link that pops up in the results. This urged me to check out the support page of Google and find out this written on it, “ When you search on Google, your results are customized to your current region. Source: Shutterstock.

Website 52

Website Testing Google Ecommerce 52

Testsigma

MAY 24, 2021

There are a plethora of browsers available in the market for both web browsing and mobile browsing such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. Testsigma is a cloud-based cross-browser testing tool that lets you easily automate the end-to-end test cases for the web.

Website 52

Website Testing Operating System Testing Tools 52

Testsigma

APRIL 16, 2021

This open-source framework is developed by Google for Android, which makes it super convenient for writing solid and reliable Android UI tests. UI Automator: Google’s testing framework — UI Automator allows us to practically test any app that’s installed on the device. Start automating your android UI tests the easy way.

Testing 52

Testing Open Source Mobile Java 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount.

Open Source 85

Open Source Software Software Social Media 85

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Testsigma is a cloud-based, AI-driven test automation platform that supports Agile and Continuous Delivery teams – for browser as well as mobile testing. Screenshots and videos are readily available for your test execution – you can configure them to be recorded for just test failures or for all test executions.

Testing Tools 57

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Java 57

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Cloud infrastructure and hosting: Consider using cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for hosting and scaling your UberEats clone. Platforms like Google Ads and social media advertising allow you to segment your ads based on location, demographics, and user interests.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Adaptation and compilation.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Testsigma, a completely cloud-based test automation tool uses AI technology in software testing to save time, costs and smoothen out the learning curve of the testers.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Are videos properly optimized?

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Cloudy with a chance of containers With the advent of cloud computing, deployment topologies have become even more subject to constant change. Cloud providers allow us to change server topology on a whim and to provision and deprovision servers as total system load changes.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

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.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Live online training, videos, books, certification prep, and more, from O’Reilly and our partner publishers. O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Almost Completely Cloud-y.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141