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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. Component Design. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. API Design. Problem Statement. Architecture.

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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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Detecting Network Anomalies Using Apache Spark

DZone

Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computing system designed for large-scale data processing. Spark provides a unified framework for processing and analyzing large datasets across distributed computing clusters. What Is Apache Spark?

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Distributed Network Service for Users Activity Limiting (Part 1)

DZone

Quality metrics contain: The ratio of successfully processed requests. Distribution of processing time between requests. Any service provider tries to reach several metrics in their activity. One group of these metrics is service quality. Number of requests dependent curves.

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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 showed about a 7.4%

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design.

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Fast memcpy, A System Design

ACM Sigarch

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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