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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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AWS re:Invent 2021 shines light on cloud-native observability

Dynatrace

“Because of the uncertainty of the times and the likely realities of the ‘new normal,’ more and more organizations are now charting the course for their journeys toward cloud computing and digital transformation,” wrote Gaurav Aggarwal in a Forbes article the impact of COVID-19 on cloud adoption.

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Symphonia at Velocity 2018, and more Serverless Insights

The Symphonia

Hello friendly Serverless Insights subscribers! This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Summer has arrived in New York City?—?a

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. 50,000 : images in a National Geographic shoot; 11 billion : Voyager 2 miles traveled; 83% : AI papers originate outside the US; 80% : network partitions lead to catastrophic failures; 97% : large AWS customers use auto scaling; 82% : startup failures due to cashflow problems; $115.7

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course". Thanks to #Ghent, Belgium’s Deputy Mayor @filipwatteeuw for sharing the secrets of their urban biking transformation (with jumps in walking & transit too). Yep, there are more quotes.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

We went from an essentially serverless model in a monolithic service, to deploying and maintaining a new microservice that hosted our app backend endpoints. Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.