The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Webp is based on intra-frame coding from the VP8 video coding format. High-Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC ) is the successor of H.264, Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format. 264, a.k.a.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. A disruption spanning hardware, networks, and cloud infrastructure can require input and participation from network and infrastructure architects, risk experts, security teams, and even procurement officers.

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Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

All I wanted was to record a forty-second voiceover for a throw-away video , so I fired up the Windows Voice Recorder app and hit the record button. Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cult. Nothing seemed to happen. And then, when I checked later it was recording.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. 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. Notably, this makes for 17.28

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

The ideal isolation solution would have the following properties: Strong isolation (multiple functions on the same hardware, protected against privilege escalation, information disclosure, covert channels, and other risks). The design of Firecracker. no support for USB, video, and audio devices).

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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. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. Without it, video recordings must fit in memory, leading to crashes. getUserMedia().

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. Answer : No, ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI and is not designed to replace a MySQL DBA job. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance. So, as for now, we are safe 😀

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Very Well!”

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As you can import HAR files from any browser/proxy into OctoPerf and design your script in our UI, we thought the focus on JMeter wasn’t required. For instance, if you’re designing a regex in OctoPerf we have a visual selector that lets you create it in a few clicks. I think it has more to do with an open source culture than anything.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 6, 2018

The initial details were a bit scant, but Erik Runyon took the time to jot down some information he found in a video from WWDC. Some features are turned off (video, service workers, fonts, etc) and text-heavy pages automatically activate Reader Mode. This enables lower-powered hardware to serve web content without overtaxing itself.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future. These are very limited, and rarely fit the designs we are building! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. LCH and LAB are designed to give us access to the entire spectrum of human vision.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Otherwise, you may not be able to locate enough appropriate hardware and end up having to often switch between different programs. Automation and Remote Control It should come as no surprise that these two features are crucial to a well-designed smart home app. How does a home automation system work?

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. The phrase "stop-energy" is often misused, but the dampening effect of Apple on the progress of Web Components after 2015-2016's burst of V1 design energy was palpable.

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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. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript is less forgiving.

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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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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. Safeguards.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. That’s the one with plenty of video embeds. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). 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). In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

no longer hold: Security was never considered by design as historically the ability to transmit and receive wireless signals required considerable resources and knowledge. The first fully operational Instrument Landing System (ILS) for planes was deployed in 1932. X-Plane was configured to land on the runway of a midsized airport in the US.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. Don’t design an entry experience that looks like a splash screen or an "About" window. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Like Slack, Microsoft is a real-time communication application that offers features like online messaging, video chat, and document sharing. It is much more than just IT support.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Jump to table of contents ?. Performance And Emissions.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Design tools suitable for professional use don’t exist yet, but they will appear very soon. of users and 3.9%

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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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. Video Transcoding. How much upfront design should you do? Egnyte Connect runs a service mesh extending from our own data centers to google cloud that provides multiple classes of services: Collaboration.

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