The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

for the web app, Sanity CMS, Firebase Auth, and Firestore database. Image Optimization Images are pieces of content in many contexts, and they are a very important and prominent part of the WaterBear app’s experience, from video posters and category banners to partner logos and campaign image assets.

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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. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

For example, website design is very crucial to impress your website visitors. Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible. You can integrate PHP with many technologies, such as databases, web servers, CMS, etc.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

When evaluating whether it’s better for us to create our own platform, or to use a third-party service, there are some things that we should consider: Designing and creating authentication services is not our core skill. Let’s go back to our previous video platform example, and create a small app to show how to use Auth0 Next.js

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Traditional network-based approaches and other point solutions are unable to provide integrated visibility into modern cloud application environments. Data privacy by design allows Session Replay to automatically mask each mobile user’s personally identifiable information (PII) data.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You may have to put off learning web development and design. You can make a great website without coding or advanced web design skills. Anyone can use a good website builder, even if they don’t know web design. It depends on the best practices of web design. The news is positive. A website builder is an alternative.

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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. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Where iOS Has Lagged.

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

We amaze ourselves by our ability to have a real-time video conversation with someone on the other side of the world, but then react with extreme frustration when the connection quality starts to dip and we must ask "are you there? That data must then be transferred across the network, even if only some of it is used.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Definitions. Media Files.

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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. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

When evaluating whether it’s better for us to create our own platform, or to use a third-party service, there are some things that we should consider: Designing and creating authentication services is not our core skill. Let’s go back to our previous video platform example, and create a small app to show how to use Auth0 Next.js

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Serverless Servers Programming Database 64

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. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Using Reels and Videos for SEO TikTok is one of the most trending mobile apps that has carved a niche for itself by offering a platform for users to record and share reels and short videos. Not just TikTok, Instagram reels, Facebook reels, and other such video-streaming apps are trending recently.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. Direct seeding of new database replicas.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. Real-time software system – Collaboration tools used for video/audio conferencing, document writing, Chat applications, etc. Network: Node.js Use cases of Node.js Micro-services.

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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. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. Document store. Permissions.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Real User Monitoring (RUM) Pingdom New Relic (also backend, database and server health monitoring) Google Analytics mPulse. Impact of performance improvements Optimizing the Critical Rendering Path for Instant Mobile Websites (Video) What are responsive websites made of?

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

One factor in this growth is the presence of image, audio and video archives, which are often archived in their original un-edited form. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services. designed for 11 ninesâ??) storage that is directly accessible.

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Particular Software

JANUARY 5, 2021

In small networks, it is sometimes possible to have one administrator. Design systems to be easily maintainable: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course. This is usually the developer who creates and deploys a small project. It sounds like we’re in pretty bad shape here.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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. Shared compute tier designed to scale horizontally with many small tasks rather than a small number of large tasks. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

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Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. 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. high-color image raster.

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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. It is much more than just IT support. Service Catalog.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required.

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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.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This led to the situation where the first player got to see the physics happening in real-time (it is happening locally in their browser, after all), while all the other players were lagging behind at least 30 milliseconds (the broadcast rate I chose), or — if the first player’s network connection was slow — considerably worse.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. Also, if a given upload runs into a networking issue, you only have to restart the part, not the entire object allowing you recover quickly from intermittent network errors. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. As Dan Rayburn wrote on his Business of Video blog, "Amazon will be in the drivers seat to own the market for small and medium sized content owners who need simple delivery at a great price.".

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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?

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