The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. However, having a scalable stream processing platform doesn’t help much if you can’t store data in a cost efficient manner. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Efficient use of a client’s resources and bandwidth can greatly improve your application’s performance.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. The IT service catalog is typically a database or resource that an organization creates to provide users with information on their operational services and offerings. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. These projects have created language models that are based on focused datasets (for example, models designed to be more accurate for academic papers, developer forum discussions, etc.). Prompt Engineering.

Social Media 138

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 12, 2023

All the commands are the same including adding photos, videos, texts, and other things. Unlike other web development platforms where you have to call a designer before updating a simple text, WordPress allows businesses to update content, pages, and other features effortlessly. HTML HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.

Development 52

Development Website Ecommerce Programming 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Visit website 3.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Sustainable Web Design. Are we embedding YouTube videos?

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

Big Data 112

Big Data Analytics AWS Scalability 112

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Get efficient test automation being codeless with Testsigma. This codeless automation testing tool allows building test cases virtually via design flow charts. from the same place.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Testing Analytics Mobile 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Kubernetes was initially designed with a strong focus on stateless workloads, meaning these workloads do not need to store any persistent data. Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). Dynatrace news.

Storage 187

Storage Database Network Tuning 187

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

For instance, video playback functionality on Netflix involves requesting URLs for the streams from a service, calling the CDN to download the bits from the streams, requesting a license to decrypt the streams from a separate service, and sending telemetry indicating the successful start of playback to yet another service.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Moving data with Bulldozer at Netflix.

Latency 243

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. Without it, video recordings must fit in memory, leading to crashes. getUserMedia().

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. of users and 3.9% of nonusers.

Open Source 107

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 107

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

In this article, we’ll explain how a proper email testing workflow can help you improve email sending efficiency. It is important to make sure that your message looks as designed for all your recipients. It’s efficient to cover this part of your app functionality with automated tests — perform user acceptance testing.

Testing 109

Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 109

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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. Thus, you can use less disk space.

Storage 88

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 88

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. DynamoDB stores information as database tables, which are collections of individual items.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design tokens. design systems. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents. Also, take a look at the other. accessibility. annotations.

Google 145

Google Design Code Mobile 145

Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. And to give you the power of testing with speed and for increased test efficiency — automation testing is the way to go. Tests can be run by importing data from spreadsheets, web services, and databases too.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Entertainment 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. number (as well as more efficient integer and float types). database and outputs the game PIN as a response. and Express.

Games 94

Games Servers Database Virtualization 94

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2020

A test automation framework offers several benefits, some of which can be mentioned as follows: Efficiency: A test automation framework provides a structure for the test automation tasks like test creation, test execution, organization of tests, test data creation or reporting. Benefits of a Test Automation Framework. Click the Play button.

Testing 52

Testing Programming Media Systems 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. 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. are divided.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

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. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. SEO is key to our success.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

They’ve all had additional specialized training; and they all have a reasonably well-designed user interface. 2 However, you don’t need to know how Transformers work to use large language models effectively, any more than you need to know how a database works to use a database. The final point needs to be unpacked a bit.

Google 104

Google Open Source Programming Code 104

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). built-in relational SQL database engines. Huge reach, plus the licensing of On2's video codecs , made Flash the default video delivery mechanism for many years. a lab's worth of sensors , including: cameras (both still and video). high-color image raster. floppy/CD/DVD).

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Thankfully, hooks solved all the problems simply and efficiently while creating room for more interesting features in React. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

Code 118

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Building a successful UberEats clone requires a well-planned strategy that takes into account various aspects, including market research, feature prioritization, intuitive design, robust development, and targeted marketing campaigns. UberEats also excels in providing a reliable and efficient delivery service.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

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. We have one file?

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Watch the video of Jamie’s talk from Green Tech South West. More after jump!

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. Video Transcoding. Chokepoint : Even sharded Berkeley DB was choking under the stress and there was a database crash with recovery taking hours, it had to be replaced. Document store. Permissions.

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