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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. Component Design. API Design. API Design.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. handshake was not designed to protect the integrity of the entire handshake. Reduced Handshake TLS 1.2 Since TLS 1.3’s

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Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Juan Diego Rodríguez 2023-10-09T11:00:00+00:00 2023-10-09T21:07:06+00:00 Working with media files in Gatsby might not be as straightforward as expected. I remember starting my first Gatsby project. banner { background-image: url("./assets/images/forest-400.jpg");

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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

Note that the CSS file is marked as blocking (see the orange cross), and thus carries Highest priority and hits the network first. priority request, and hits the network after the JavaScript. By switching from an asynchronous media type (i.e. media=print ) to a synchronous media type (e.g. Moving Away From media.

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Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology

The Netflix TechBlog

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. That is where standards play a key role. Brands are nested.

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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