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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). I used to comment sparingly.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent.

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The Show Must Go On: Securing Netflix Studios At Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. We eventually were able to add so much security leverage into Wall-E that the bulk of the “going internet-facing” checklist for Studio applications boiled down to one item: Will you use Wall-E?

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

half of all corporate networks. Log4Shell is a widespread software vulnerability that occurred in December of 2021 in Apache Log4j 2, a popular Java library for logging error messages in applications. Recently, the industry has seen an increase in attempted attacks on zero-day vulnerabilities. million attack attempts , against?

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ).

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Nov 9 - Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers , Roger M. RFC 1498, August 1993. Lorie, G.F.