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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 30th, 2021

High Scalability

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. But the cloud brought new complexities, such as increasing connections and dependencies.

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Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology

The Netflix TechBlog

Hardware video decoders need to know in advance the resolution and bit depth of the video streams to allocate their decoding buffers. Many other elements of signaling are provided in our packaged content to enable the viewing to start as quickly as possible and in the best possible conditions. That is where standards play a key role.

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A survival strategy for the digital transformation

All Things Distributed

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

Another trend is that even though the size of models is increasing, the training costs are coming down by orders of magnitude, and by starting with an open source model, good results can be obtained by anyone with a small amount of hardware. Some kind of mandatory labeling seems to be needed.

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5 Finance Apps for Financial Reporting in 2022

Tech News Gather

Because it utilizes multi-factor authentication, multi-layered hardware, and software encryption, the application offers its users a high degree of protection. Mint is the best Finance Application for creating personalized insights and customizing the budget. Intuit, which is its parent business, oversees its operations. Money Lover.

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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members.

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