The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. How did we get here?

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Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. Understanding this DBaaS system might take some adjusting too similar just how traveling on cruises has its tempo which requires us to get used to optimally benefit from what it provides.

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. How does a home automation system work? billion in 2021 to $163.24 in forecast period.

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Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Hardware resources. Software that’s running.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Media Session API. Background Sync.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP!

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. Let’s put it all together and review the system interaction diagram. the background image shown above). Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and

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Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. Success with microservices means owning the software lifecycle. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle.

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Database Architecture Education Systems 135

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Challenging this idea, and suggesting that in complex systems, this linearity is soothingly deceptive?—?but A core assumption of software development: the same inputs reliably and deterministically create the same outputs. It’s just an operating system or networking bug. but deceptive none the less?—?always

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Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Recent work. halt_loop: while ( true ). The C standard (§ 6.7.4

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C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76