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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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Evolution of Netflix Conductor:

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment. Netflix Conductor is maintained by the Media Workflow Infrastructure team.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. And then you need infrastructure; lots of it. Instead, Fruit Co. publishes a paltry set of options that carry an unmistakable odour of first-party app requirements.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

One thing is clear: when planning for the consumer experience to be simple and easy to use, the backend infrastructure and performance becomes much more complicated. Apica has the technical knowledge and infrastructure capacity to test any of the world’s largest online streaming services.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

When Reloaded was designed, we focused on a single use case: converting high-quality media files (also known as mezzanines) received from studios into compressed assets for Netflix streaming. To achieve this, Cosmos was developed as a computing platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices. 264, AV1, etc.).