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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

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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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

Open Source. Of course, it doesn’t mean that JMeter became the best tool for every task, but its popularity, in addition to being an open source tool, definitely gets it high in the list of options to consider. We see acquisitions in the commercial sector on the top of open source too.

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Top UI Automation Tools You Should Try

DZone

75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. Selenium is a popular open-source test automation tool, nowadays in demand, and extensively used tool in the test market. Some stats that prove that UI should not be taken lightly ever: By 2020, there will be around 6.1 billion Smartphone users.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

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.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

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. The market was maturing.

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“Write It So It’s Right”: A New Rite in Dev-Assist AI?

J. Paul Reed

Last week, I attended Sapphire Ventures’ second annual Hypergrowth Engineering Summit. The second: the impact of ChatGTP, Copilot, and AI generally on not only the tech industry, but engineering organizations themselves. build / release engineer, I found it to be a fascinating one, too. As a (recovering?) A lot of heavy lifting.