The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

would reduce play delay, as we are no longer required to wait for the handshake to finish and we can instead issue the HTTP request for media data and receive the HTTP response for media data earlier. Media Rebuffer At Netflix, we define a media rebuffer as a non-network originated rebuffer. Since TLS 1.3’s

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Adding social media features to your application is a great way help spread the word, without actually doing anything. Social media can bring good traffic for you, the developer, and provide useful features to your user at the same time. Take for example, you made a mobile app that finds funny pictures on the internet.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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DZone

JUNE 26, 2019

The days of a predominantly text-based Internet are long gone. Video is the most powerful form of media used online today—according to Cisco’s global Internet traffic projections , video content will account for 82 percent of all IP traffic (both business and consumer) by 2022.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2012

A little while back, I mentioned I was doing some research for the book about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test2 {display:none;} }. png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test3 { display:none; } }.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Asset exposure —indicates exposure of the vulnerable code to the internet. The open-source scripting language PHP is used by over 78% of all websites that use a server-side programming language.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As the media coverage of the project ramps up, you may have heard of Starlink – SpaceX’s new satellite constellation project. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Elon Musk’s need for speed.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Over on the Polypane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof ( it is )), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data , about the prefers-reduced-data media query. It’s the same spirit with accessibility and the prefers-reduced-motion media query.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 5, 2022

The technologies marketed under the "web3" umbrella are generally not fit for purpose : Jonty Wareing @jonty Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're "buying" and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon 30001 12:30 PM · Mar 17, 2021. Oh, and that URL is not the media. It refers to nothing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Your video streaming tool should fit into your existing media pipeline. It’s truly a one-stop platform for visual media processing. (vf, Image credit: imgix ).

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick. I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editors pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. The Streaming Media editors singled out Cloudfront Streaming Content service as possibly truly disruptive. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2010 03:02 AM.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). webcam access via getUserMedia() or the Media Session API ) may attend deceptively small expansions in exposed API surface. Media Recorder.

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Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When developing an educational app, it is essential that students have the option to sign up using their social media accounts. This is a convenient option for students who do not have access to the internet or encounter network problems. Social Media. Student Sign-up. Push Notification. Course Management.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

(Ben Thompson ends his article by saying that Sydney doesn’t feel like a search engine; it feels like something completely different, something that we might not be ready for—perhaps what David Bowie meant in 1999 when he called the Internet an “ alien lifeform ”).

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Media may not play on some environments. Why Perform Compatibility Testing? Files may not show.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

To zoom out again, we live in a society where mainstream journalism has been carved out and gutted by the internet, search, and social media. The New York Times is one of the last serious publications standing and they’ve worked incredibly hard and cleverly in their “digital transformation” since the advent of the internet.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Media and Entertainment – BBC , Channel 4 , ITV , News UK , The FT , Trinity Mirror , The Guardian. Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Earlier, people only had a desktop and a limited number of browsers to surf the internet. Media : The next important aspect of a fully responsive website is media, i.e. images or videos. It is crucial to ensure that the media change their size or resolution according to the requirement 3.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Marshall Project Mixes Media. That it could find a new audience as an animated series online, then be nominated for not one but two Emmys , is testament to the transformative powers of the internet. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story. Maybe a heat map is better than a table.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 10, 2017

More and more we see stories appearing, like this one in HBR by MIT Media Lab's Joi Ito and crew. It praises the power of blockchain as a disruptive technology, on par with how "the internet" changed everything. I am always surprised to see that these far-reaching predictions are made, without diving into the technology itself.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

It can be combined with CSS media queries to select the appropriate image for the width of the screen. Consequently, your CSS styles and media queries have no impact on its choice. The sizes attribute tells the browser the intended display width of the image. Let’s update our code example: <img src="image-280.png".

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In DevSecOps, content includes applications and services—in addition to information about the environments where they run and the users who use them. The selection of available apps that are presented is completely context-sensitive and can even be expanded based on your needs.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. The most promising compression tool right now was developed by the Alliance for Open Media on its AV1 format and is called AVIF.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 8, 2019

Responsive image techniques, such as the srcset , sizes , and media HTML attributes, allow different scaled images to be delivered based on the size and resolution of the accessing device. What Are the srcset , sizes , and media Attributes? Both the sizes and media attributes are nearly identical.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

For example, a billion dollar scale Internet Marketing company is using Greenplum advanced analytics to perform audience profiling to understand who their audience is, what they buy, which networks and devices they use, and where they are geographically located so they can better understand and serve their market. How to Get Started.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). After HTTP/2 has fulfilled its task of speeding up HTTP(S) and has become the basis for fast TLS connections, QUIC goes one step further by aiming to replace the TCP transport protocol in the Internet. Unique sequence numbers ensure that no data packet get lost.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Our teams are helping companies of all sizes, operating in various industries, such as finance, business, media, and many others, move to the cloud. Lors de ses quatre années d’existence, elle a réussi à se développer jusqu’à réunir plus de 1,3 milliards d’utilisateurs sur Internet.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

If this is a media site that wants to quickly load content so the user can start reading, you could reasonably say Page A is the best. However, the subscriptions department for that same media site might say Page A is terrible because they want people to be able to click the “buy a subscription” call to action button.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

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