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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

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. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

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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How PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

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. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP.

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Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). For high traffic systems, processing the individual response times for each request may be too much work.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

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. Vendors like Apple. ??.

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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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