Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. CSS color().

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Build evolvable systems. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. Cloud testing helps an organization gain competitiveness by reducing the cost of testing.

Cloud 59

Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM is one of the practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Like Slack, Microsoft is a real-time communication application that offers features like online messaging, video chat, and document sharing.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. of users) report that “infrastructure issues” are an issue. We’ll say more about this later.) of nonusers, 5.4%

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software. The seamless integration with the rest of the AWS infrastructure, especially CloudWatch, made real-time monitoring a cinch.â??. either way, itâ??s

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g.,

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a custom-built backup utility designed to cater to the needs of users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software but require a fully supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. MongoDB backup methods include full, incremental, and continuous backups.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

One of the ones that stands out is Nate Koechley’s “Professional Frontend Engineering” presentation ( transcript and video ). And so it’s important to continually invest in stability, in strong infrastructure, in stable code, so that we have that strong platform to stand on as the next thing happens. Here at Yahoo!,

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Video Transcoding. Infrastructure Optimization. We already use the public cloud to autoscale some async processing like Video Transcoding, text extraction, data migration, Search, etc. What Infrastructure Do You Use? How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out? Document store. Permissions. Hybrid Sync.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52