The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. 264, a.k.a.

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Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In a recent workshop I did with a global player in the financial market we used their new mobile banking app as a reference. It’s the same concept as Test Driven Development (TDD) where you start with tests that will fail until you finish implementing the code so tests will succeed. Below is an example of such a simple dashboard.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 214

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. Compared with Google Pixel 1, the HDR photography is accelerated by 5x and the power efficiency increased by 10x.

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Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers , boosting the language’s already strong adoption. Does your function have side effects?

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Programming Java Google C++ 128

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Once the workshop was over, we got to work.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. Optimize the performance of key queries.

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Cloud Traffic Database Network 31