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How To Implement Video Information and Editing APIs in Java

DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

According to data provided by Sandvine in their 2022 Global Internet Phenomena Report , video traffic accounted for 53.72% of the total volume of internet traffic in 2021, and the closest trailing category (social) came in at just 12.69%.

Social Media

Social Media Java Traffic Internet

All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. Choudhury, L.

Open Source

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

Media

Media Cache Storage AWS

What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Polymorphic Data Storage. Greenplum’s polymorphic data storage allows you to control the configuration for your table and partition storage with the freedom to execute and compress files within it at any time.

Big Data

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: The Foundations of Blockchain

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.

Blockchain

Blockchain Media Internet Internet

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

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.

Media

Media Games Education Engineering

AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

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.

Media

Media Internet Internet Speed

Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

JUNE 10, 2016

The specific example application provided in this repository enables users to upload photos and notes using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon API Gateway respectively. The architecture can be created with an AWS CloudFormation template. The template does the following: Creates an S3 bucket named to hold your web app.

Lambda

Lambda Serverless AWS Architecture

Serverless Reference Architecture with AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2016

The specific example application provided in this repository enables users to upload photos and notes using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon API Gateway respectively. The architecture can be created with an AWS CloudFormation template. The template does the following: Creates an S3 bucket named to hold your web app.

Lambda

Lambda Serverless AWS Architecture

Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. Character encoding refers to the method used to represent characters as binary data for storage and transmission.

Performance

Performance Storage Social Media Database

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. More customer Engagement : Chatbots communicate instantaneously with your website visitors and social media followers.

Blockchain

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending.

AWS

AWS Internet Internet Storage

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first apps keep their data in local storage on each device, but the data is also synchronised across all the devices on which a user works. That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. It should work across multiple devices. It should work without a network. The brave new world.

Cloud

Cloud Software Software Internet

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed. All postings.

Servers

Servers Social Media AWS Website

Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

Analytics

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail

Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed. All postings. Recent Entries.

AWS

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data

Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Here, native apps are doing work related to their core function; storage and tracking of user data are squarely within the four corners of the app's natural responsibilities. PWA Feature Detector.

Google

Google Mobile Engineering Internet

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs.

AWS

AWS Cloud Java Operating System

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Waiting time.

Performance

Performance Cache Website Speed

This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

In an in-depth article on Streaming Media Dan Rayburn analyzed the impact of Amazon Cloudfront move to GA: Amazons CDN Gets More Competitive, Adds SLA, New Edge Locations, Lower Pricing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. As always more detail at [link]. or rss feed.

AWS

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In this article, I will describe this latter solution, based on a WordPress application storing files on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) (a cloud object storage solution to store and retrieve data), operating through the AWS SDK. Note 3: There are 3rd party plugins for uploading files from WordPress to S3.

AWS

AWS Servers Storage Cloud

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed. All postings.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency

Testing a mobile application – 16 steps you should not miss

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For example, a mobile application where users can play different types of media from the internet may want to switch to the strongest network connection available. When dealing with user data, it is important to ensure that user data remains secure in all stages of collection, storage and processing.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Network Analytics

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). The solution for this specific problem is that the user should optimize media by reducing the size of the images without lowering their quality. As you can see, there are a lot of different elements that come into play during page’s load time. Test Location.

Performance

Performance Cache Website Speed

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Do we use adaptive media loading and client hints? Adaptive media serving in use. Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times).

Performance

Performance Cache Media Metrics

Digital Squalor

The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

In the not too distant past, storage was limited and expensive. As recently as 1980, 1 megabyte of disk storage cost $200. Storage capacity is now so abundant and compact that you can record every voice conversation you’ll ever have in a device that can fit into the palm of your hand. But this is no longer the case.

Storage

Storage Internet Internet Mobile

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

These can be incidental tasks, such as the analysis of a particular dataset, or tasks where the amount of work to be done is almost never finished, such as media conversion from a Hollywoods studios movie vault, or web crawling for a search indexing company. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Subscribe to this weblogs.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. To specify, users can continue using those parts of the site that were cached if the Internet connection is unstable or when offline. Image credit: Apivita. Large preview ). Don’t get me wrong.

Code

Code Cache Retail Mobile

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Consider Swapping Images with the Sizes Attribute by specifying different image display dimensions depending on media queries, e.g. to manipulate sizes to swap sources in a magnifier component. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

Performance

Performance Cache Network Metrics

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Consider Swapping Images with the Sizes Attribute by specifying different image display dimensions depending on media queries, e.g. to manipulate sizes to swap sources in a magnifier component. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

Performance

Performance Cache Metrics Network

Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

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.

AWS

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

Storage

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability

Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed.

AWS

AWS Cloud Storage Internet

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

Media

Media AWS Storage Big Data

Technology Performance Pulse

How To Implement Video Information and Editing APIs in Java

All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: The Foundations of Blockchain

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda

Serverless Reference Architecture with AWS Lambda

Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

Hobson's Browser

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

Testing a mobile application – 16 steps you should not miss

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Digital Squalor

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

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