All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change. In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. We rebuilt our offers and plans from the ground up.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Accelerating Innovation. entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time.

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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. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. Enter Google!

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over the years, we have built a recommendation system that uses many different machine learning algorithms to create these personalized recommendations. All of these algorithms and logic come together in our page generation system to produce a personalized homepage for each of our members, which we have outlined in a previous post.

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