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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. Fast forward 10 years, and Netflix is now the leading streaming entertainment service?—?serving

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Here’s how some Gartner analysts describe the current state of WAFs: “With few exceptions, WAF technology has failed to deliver on the promise to automatically enforce a positive security model.”. Whether the process is exposed to the Internet.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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From Idea to Reality: The Journey of Developing a Smart Home App

Tech News Gather

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. During the registration process, the user must choose a unique username and password.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

Working from home is another tipping point, enabled by widespread deployment of laptops, home internet with capacity to run video (thanks in part to Netflix and other streaming services), and distributed productivity tools, then kicked over the line by the COVID-19 lockdown. Some kind of mandatory labeling seems to be needed.

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An in-Depth Guide For The Move to Earn app

Tech News Gather

These apps are known as Blockchain apps, which are the fastest-growing category of third-generation internet-Web3. These apps are now the most entertaining method to earn cryptocurrency and gain attention. However, the growth of blockchain technology and virtual reality alone is still contributing to the popularity of these apps.