The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In this paper, we examine the advertising and tracking ecosystems of Over-The-Top ("OTT") streaming devices, which deliver Internet-based video content to traditional TVs/display devices. smart TVs) to facilitate the delivery of Internet-based video content. streaming sticks and boxes) or enable functionality within a TV (e.g.

Systems 104

Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. To that end, the Video and Image Encoding team in Encoding Technologies (ET) has spent the last few years rebuilding the video processing pipeline on our next-generation microservice-based computing platform Cosmos.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP. Ensure the company has state-of-the-art infrastructure and tools to cater to your needs.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? What about UHD video? The authors tested a mobile UHD panoramic video telephony app. Unsurprisingly, the more network traffic and hence the more you’re using the radio, the more power 5G consumes. energy consumption).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

We could also swap out the implementation of a field from GraphQL Shim to Video API with federation directives. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. How does it work?

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions. Second, backend services or infrastructure can be scaled intelligently as adoption ramps up.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Real Engineering has created a fascinating video that explains the impact the project may have on internet speed as well as financial and economic implications. The video uses the time it currently takes for information to travel from the New York Stock Exchange to a viewer in London to illustrate the advantages that this network could offer.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. Every month, we run millions of containers on thousands of machines on Titus, serving hundreds of internal applications and customers.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

for the workout video playback feature. The ApDex SLO ensures that users have a positive experience when watching workout videos within the fitness app. and above indicates that most users find the video playback performance excellent or at least acceptable. The Apdex score of 0.85

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

for the workout video playback feature. The ApDex SLO ensures that users have a positive experience when watching workout videos within the fitness app. and above indicates that most users find the video playback performance excellent or at least acceptable. The Apdex score of 0.85

Latency 179

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 179

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. How much does all of this cost?

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). For high traffic systems, processing the individual response times for each request may be too much work.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Phones are a painful way to watch movies–more about that later.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads. Turn off the tools you no longer need.

Strategy 177

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 177

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

One thing is clear: when planning for the consumer experience to be simple and easy to use, the backend infrastructure and performance becomes much more complicated. Apica has the technical knowledge and infrastructure capacity to test any of the world’s largest online streaming services.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

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

VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

Watch the Video of our Telco Expert. downgrading the streaming rate on video). OTT providers offer many ways around the telco billing infrastructure. Telco companies used this information and insights to plan capital investment projects for network expansion and marketing. Phones are being sold unlocked.

Analytics 40

Analytics Strategy Network Games 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Our team was responsible for Google integrations, watermarking, bursty traffic management, and on-call support for this application. We had to traverse multiple codebases, and observability systems to debug errors and inefficiencies in the system.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. This 360-degree visibility into user journeys and the underlying applications or infrastructure are key insights provided only by Dynatrace. This enables DevOps teams to seamlessly navigate between simulated and real-user journeys.

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 203

VoltDB

JUNE 9, 2017

downgrading the streaming rate on video). OTT providers offer many ways around the telco billing infrastructure. For passive services like email, this wouldn’t be as necessary. Will a subscriber really know that an email that arrives five seconds late is “late”? Phones are being sold unlocked.

Analytics 40

Analytics Strategy Network Games 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) Most applications in content and studio engineering at Netflix deal with assets; such as videos, images, text, etc. are stored in secure storage layers.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.Â

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. There is no predefined moveset.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Think curbside delivery for groceries, video conferencing for work and school, and telemedicine for doctor visits. This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version.

Cloud 169

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 169

Particular Software

JULY 18, 2022

While Kafka can deal with high traffic volumes, the right partition strategy is a key factor and will have a major impact on the scalability and elasticity of the whole system. Instead, they have to manage their own cursor because Kafka doesn’t manage cursors for you. It just provides you with repeatable access to the stream of events.

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Processing Systems 98

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Plus there was all of the infrastructure to push data into the cluster in the first place. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?”

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. These countries generally have a combination of poor technical infrastructure and low adoption, meaning data is both costly to deliver and doesn’t have the economy of scale to drive costs down.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130