The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

The decision to ban competing browser engines is as old as iOS, but Apple has only attempted to explain itself in recent years. Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Apple's Open Source Claim #.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

Cloud 280

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 280

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The open-source scripting language PHP is used by over 78% of all websites that use a server-side programming language. Full context, including application dependencies, network topologies, and assessment of business risk based on vulnerabilities, exposures, and asset value are needed to manage enterprise-wide software risks.

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Social Media Open Source Media Cloud 176

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Supporting developers through those checklists for edge cases, and then validating that each team’s choices resulted in an architecture with all the desired security properties, was similarly not scalable for our security engineers. Netflix engineers talk a lot about the concept of a “ Paved Road ”.

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Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines. Coordinators are servers that receive queries and return results (search engines). CIDR’20. web pages).

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 91

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

half of all corporate networks. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications.

Java 179

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 179

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. But over time, something went very wrong.

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 111

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A study by Wappalyzer says that PHP runs 82% of the Internet. PHP is also used to build and run popular social networking sites like Tumbler, Facebook, MailChimp, and Digg. It has a PHP engine that turns PHP code into bytecode, which makes it run faster. High Performance PHP is known for how fast and well it works.

Website 59

Website Development Open Source Database 59

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. Russell Kaplan of Scale AI talked about prompt engineering. Tristan Zajonc, CEO of Continual.ai

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

At Kitopi we are satisfying the worlds’ appetite by running a high-tech powered network of cloud kitchens. And not to forget – besides our orders we are also monitoring the kitchen itself such as whether a kitchen is currently open and operating or how the internet connectivity to the central servers is.

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Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 188

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

With QAOps we are incorporating the testing process into DevOps and let QA engineers work with developers while the software is in development. IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet. Signup now.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

High Scalability

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Contraining the engineers tends to lead to poorer results; giving them choices produces a better chance of success. markimbriaco : The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that the network is reliable. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. it's a bit sad really. There are a lot more quotes.

Internet 27

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 27

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. Popular search engines like Google give preference to websites that are mobile-ready[4]. online shopping, bill payments, etc.) Mobile-first indexing.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The 85% global-share OS (Android) has historically facilitated browser choice and diversity in browser engines. Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. More on that when we get to iOS. PWA Feature Detector.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Technologies like Microsoft Bot framework, Facebook Bot Engine, and DailougeFlow open-source builds these bots.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Sergey Chernyshev.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. It doesn’t take long for bundle sizes to grow. Large preview ).

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 95

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It should work without a network. That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. One of the fruits of this work is an open-source JavaScript CDRT implementation called Automerge which brings CRDT-style merge operations to JSON documents. It should support collaboration.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Which ones can be delayed?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. If we think about social networks, we can see two clear trends, those focusing on text and those focusing on multimedia content. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00. Large preview ).

Media 108

Media Cache Website Mobile 108

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. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection. React is amongst the widely utilized and popular open-source web development frameworks. Server side rendering is a massive boost for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). MaterialUI. Foundation.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

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. Large preview ). 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Steve Souders was one of the first in reverse-engineering how browsers requested and waited for resources. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Which ones can be delayed?

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Deviation metrics As noted by Wikipedia engineers , data of how much variance exists in your results could inform you how reliable your instruments are, and how much attention you should pay to deviations and outlers.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When dealing with e-commerce at some point, you probably have heard, and perhaps used Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform. Following from the above, an undeniable strength of PWAs, when compared to native applications, is that their pages are findable via search engines. Coding From Scratch. Alex Husar. Large preview ).

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Open source models are a large and diverse group.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112