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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

While software decoders enable AV1 playback for more powerful devices, a majority of Netflix members enjoy their favorite shows on TVs. 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.

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Cloudy with a high chance of DBMS: a 10-year prediction for enterprise-grade ML

The Morning Paper

The authors of the paper have "extensive experience of using ML technologies in production settings" between them. The key insight this led to is that ML models are software , derived from data. Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context. EGML requirements.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster Announcement

SQL Server According to Bob

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Software Engineer. Follow-up.

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AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning

All Things Distributed

When a technology has its breakthrough, can often only be determined in hindsight. The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. Machine Leaning at Amazon.

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5 signs you need to implement test automation

Testsigma

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. Many technologies must be handled and supported on many platforms, computers, and browsers in the emerging digital environment test framework.

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. Figure 5: Do dev teams own/not own the software lifecycle? Containers are a simplifying technology.

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Matrix IT Organizations, Part I: Turtles all the way Down

The Agile Manager

These sub-specializations are fairly well entrenched because career path is generally associated with role, and even specific technologies. For one thing, deeper expertise in a narrow set of technologies will command a higher salary than shallow expertise in a wide range of technologies.