The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. To evaluate decoder capabilities on these devices, the Encoding Technologies team crafted a set of special certification streams.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). and is a key building block of containerization technologies. Measuring the kernel.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. Large preview ).

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J. Paul Reed

AUGUST 7, 2023

Or for gaming the definition of “done,” agile -style.) Even though that remediation task was pretty minor — tweaking some low-level hardware settings on each physical server and rebooting — and could have been done quickly enough, there was intense debate on whether it should be done.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Don't like the consequences?

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

These both can be regarded as the latest techs in the arsenal of information technology. Today, we are here to talk about the successful amalgamation of DevOps and cloud-based technologies that is amazing in itself. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. Besides, for the test creation itself, you’ll need plenty of testers and engineers who have to regularly upgrade their skills to learn the latest trends and technologies for performing tests.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity. until today. APAC Summer Tour.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Within a few years, we saw significant expansion of contract labor firms (or "services", or "consulting", whichever you prefer): firms like Accenture and Infosys grew rapidly, while firms like IBM ditched hardware for services. With all cash and no equity, employees now had clear rules of the game, too. Tech labor was wage work.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Understanding how mobile OSes undermine browser choice requires a nuanced understanding of OS and browser technology. The power dynamics of these situations are starkly different, even though "web technology" is used to render content in each case. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. How bad is the situation?

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 28, 2011

Businesses are still spending on technology as a way to lock-in productivity gains to protect margins in a period of flat revenues. VC firms late to the game will add more froth to valuations. There is also a sea-change in tech from hardware and services to software. But it is likely to be a short breather.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Cloud computing?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. All across the Nordics, AWS technologies are fostering a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation, helping to grow the next generation of Nordic enterprises.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. Here at Yahoo!,

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Have we not learned anything since the movie War Games ? People just don’t understand the technologies they are putting in their houses. There is a push for regulation of facial recognition technologies , but opt-in for authentication purposes tends to be carved out. It also assumes this technology is secure.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

All of this means that it will be more costly because of the growing hardware requirement and a little bit faster. It may appear that the game is not worth the candle. It’s great when you have the opportunity to experiment with the bleeding edge technology. And even then, you should keep in mind that because of the Node.js

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important. An AI project that doesn’t address data integration and governance (including compliance) is bound to fail, regardless of how good your AI technology might be.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. I recently helped a gaming website improve its performance. As a result of this, my view of the Internet for a long time was a little ephemeral, a sort of mirage.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. This is where we started. Enhancing The Experience.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

In the year since DynamoDB launched, we have seen widespread adoption by customers building everything from e-commerce platforms, real-time advertising exchanges, mobile applications, Super Bowl advertising campaigns, Facebook applications, and online games. This was the genesis of NoSQL databases like Dynamo at Amazon.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Vuepress (Vue) Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. Summing It All Up.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Next.js (React), Vuepress (Vue), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance. Take a look at the application here: [link].

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. This was not our technology vendorsâ??

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