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You might have come across them in react-media or unstated. Look at this example taken from react-media: const MyComponent = ( ) = > (. < < Media query = " (max-width: 599px)" >. </ Media >. ) ; The Media component calls its children passing a matches argument. This way, the children components don’t need to know about the media query. Componentization has marked a before and after in web development. MORE
Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. MORE
One of the best examples is Vox Media , the company behind The Verge and other high trafficked sites. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster. Vox Media took some performance metrics (first paint, page complete and speed index) and decided on a target. One of Vox Media’s posts where they gave an update on their efforts. Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. MORE
One aspect in particular that is getting quite a bit of attention is the ability to embed media queries within SVG files. With embedded media queries you could apply an id or class to the portion of SVG that generates the slogan and then embed a media query within the SVG file that hides the slogan when the logo is below a certain size. Essentially something like this: @media screen and (max-width: 200px) { #slogan{ display: none; } }. MORE
When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping. MORE
Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Media p erformance . Dynatrace news. MORE
Digital Experience Load Testing Media and Entertainment WebThe great about a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. And while Read More. The post Apica Helps HBO Deliver Infinite Streaming Scalability appeared first on Apica. MORE
I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. MORE
AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage media for transport. Punch cards are paper-based storage media that represent data using the presence or absence of holes in specific positions MORE
The ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF) is the key packaging standard in the entertainment industry as recently recognized with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). MORE
Test Area: Requested Media Profile Validation A Netflix capable STB should request accurate media streams from our cloud service for optimal user experience. This ensures that the media streams requested by DUT accurately reflect its HDMI capabilities and the active HDMI topology. MORE
While there are a number of ways to achieve this, I’d dare say the simplest and most ubiquitous is Filament Group’s print media type trick. This is the danger of the print media hack. MORE
AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media. MORE
This means data can be stored in file system cache, non-stable media. ) An fsync/fdatasync is used to make sure the data is stored in stable media. The stable media write(s) occurs during the sync operation and can fail for any number of reasons (out of disk space, lost connectivity to SAN, etc.) The next sync returns ESUCCESS, meaning the the write(s), which were in cache, do not flush to stable media but applications were told they did. MORE
There are the above-mentioned family ones, social media, and what’s amounting to an endless stream of news. You’ve got a finicky toddler who won’t eat breakfast, a spouse or partner loudly watching Netflix in the living room, and a dog that’s begging for an extra play session. MORE
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? The srcset , sizes , and media attributes allow the and elements to be extended by offering the browser additional information, such as different image sources as well as different display sizes and media conditions. MORE
When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping. MORE
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. Any file uploaded by a user, from profile pictures to personal documents, is called a media file. Django’s default handling of static assets and media files is just that: simple. Media Files. MORE
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. MORE
In 2018 alone, total media ad spending will rise 7.4% Digital media will account for 43.5% With the rapid growth of online advertising, viewer attention is becoming increasingly scarce. to $638 billion. of this total ad spend (eMarketer 2018) and will surpass conventional advertising by 2021. With online browsers bombarded with more and more advertising the trick is to capture their limited attention with compelling ads. MORE
Digital Experience Load Testing Media and Entertainment WebThe thing with a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. And while it can be huge for their bottom line, there is also a significant technical challenge when the program is being streamed. MORE
About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. A <link rel="stylesheet"> that doesn’t have the disabled attribute to inform the browser to not download the CSS and doesn’t have a media attribute that matches the user’s device. MORE
Split Your Media Types. So if achieving Critical CSS is proving quite tricky—and it probably is—another option we have is to split our main CSS file out into its individual Media Queries. If we can split that single, all-render blocking file into its respective Media Queries: Then we see that the network treats files differently: CSS files not required to render the current context are assigned a Lowest priority. MORE
Explore and understand practical applications of AWS Lambda from real-time data processing, text-to-speech, media transformation to image recognition engine and personalized content delivery model. MORE
Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Permalink. Comments (). MORE
AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media. MORE
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. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2010 03:02 AM. Permalink. Comments (). MORE
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. improvement in media rebuffers. MORE
I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Leases. By Werner Vogels on 21 September 2012 06:00 PM. Permalink. Comments (). MORE
Digital Experience Load Testing Media and Entertainment WebThe great about a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. And while Read More. The post Apica Helps HBO Deliver Infinite Streaming Scalability appeared first on Apica. MORE
A few people—including Jason Grigsby , Greg Rewis and Aaron Mentele —have done some excellent testing about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. However, setting background images within a media query and then overriding seems to work pretty well ( test 5 ). When you’re building a responsive site, there will undoubtedly be times when you need to change a background image, or when you need to hide an image for a specific resolution range. MORE
By setting a non-matching media type, the browser naturally loads the stylesheet with a low priority off of the Critical Path. Once the file has loaded, the inline onload event handler swaps to a matching media type, and this change then applies the stylesheet to the document, swapping the fonts in. Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any of the following issues. MORE
Joel frequently blogs on social media marketing and other related topics at www.socializedpr.com. Joel has written a fantastic book to give to anyone looking to get started in, or relatively new to using social media for marketing for corporate companies. Joel is willing to discuss both how social media can help if used correctly, and how social media can hurt a company if used improperly. Who Wrote It? MORE
A little while back, I mentioned I was doing some research for the book about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. The HTML and CSS are below: #test2 { background-image:url('images/test2.png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test2 {display:none;} }. The HTML and CSS are below: #test3 div { background-image:url('images/test3.png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test3 { display:none; } }. MORE
Greenplum customers include American Express, Walmart, Asurian, Bank of America, and many more across the banking, professional services, media, insurance, healthcare, automotive and retail markets. MORE
Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. MezzFS?—?Mounting MORE
Considering that some major financial and social media apps may share data with literally hundreds of partners, that's a bigger undertaking than you might imagine. Smaller companies have traditionally been able to tolerate quirks and technical issues when deploying an app, but larger enterprises have never really had this luxury. MORE
Application Testing eCommerce Finance Industries Insurance Media and Entertainment Monitoring SaaS/Tech Apica Synthetic Monitoring ASM ASM ReviewsApplication Performance Management (APM) is a maturing field, full of innovative vendors. Users of APM tools thus have a range Read More. MORE
How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Akshay Ranganath. MORE
Application Testing eCommerce Finance Industries Insurance Media and Entertainment Monitoring SaaS/Tech Apica Synthetic Monitoring ASM ASM ReviewsApplication Performance Management (APM) is a maturing field, full of innovative vendors. Users of APM tools thus have a range of choices. MORE
In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers technology and infrastructure to help production crews create and exchange media during production and post production stages. Lights, Camera, Media! Media Workflows: Studio Archival and its variants. MORE
Unsized Media. The unsized-media policy tells the browser that all media elements should have size attributes, and if they don’t, the browser should choose a default. There is a LOT of unsized-media out there (I’m guilty too!) MORE
main stylesheet and JS files) while others may be less important (like images or stylesheets for other media types). A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. MORE
Political messages have invaded our social media. It's a strange time. We work from home. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it. MORE
Media Related Topics The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 12, 2021
In this post, we will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Netflix delivers technology and infrastructure to help production crews create and exchange media during production and post production stages. Lights, Camera, Media! Media Workflows: Studio Archival and its variants.
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. Any file uploaded by a user, from profile pictures to personal documents, is called a media file. Django’s default handling of static assets and media files is just that: simple. Media Files.
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The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 1, 2021
Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices.
Smashing Magazine
MARCH 25, 2021
How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Akshay Ranganath.
Tim Kadlec
APRIL 10, 2013
One aspect in particular that is getting quite a bit of attention is the ability to embed media queries within SVG files. With embedded media queries you could apply an id or class to the portion of SVG that generates the slogan and then embed a media query within the SVG file that hides the slogan when the logo is below a certain size. Essentially something like this: @media screen and (max-width: 200px) { #slogan{ display: none; } }.
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. The HTML and CSS are below: #test2 { background-image:url('images/test2.png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test2 {display:none;} }. The HTML and CSS are below: #test3 div { background-image:url('images/test3.png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test3 { display:none; } }.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 6, 2019
Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. MezzFS?—?Mounting
Tim Kadlec
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
A few people—including Jason Grigsby , Greg Rewis and Aaron Mentele —have done some excellent testing about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. However, setting background images within a media query and then overriding seems to work pretty well ( test 5 ). When you’re building a responsive site, there will undoubtedly be times when you need to change a background image, or when you need to hide an image for a specific resolution range.
Apica
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Application Testing eCommerce Finance Industries Insurance Media and Entertainment Monitoring SaaS/Tech Apica Synthetic Monitoring ASM ASM ReviewsApplication Performance Management (APM) is a maturing field, full of innovative vendors. Users of APM tools thus have a range Read More.
Tim Kadlec
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Joel frequently blogs on social media marketing and other related topics at www.socializedpr.com. Joel has written a fantastic book to give to anyone looking to get started in, or relatively new to using social media for marketing for corporate companies. Joel is willing to discuss both how social media can help if used correctly, and how social media can hurt a company if used improperly. Who Wrote It?
Apica
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Application Testing eCommerce Finance Industries Insurance Media and Entertainment Monitoring SaaS/Tech Apica Synthetic Monitoring ASM ASM ReviewsApplication Performance Management (APM) is a maturing field, full of innovative vendors. Users of APM tools thus have a range of choices.
Apica
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Digital Experience Load Testing Media and Entertainment WebThe thing with a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. And while it can be huge for their bottom line, there is also a significant technical challenge when the program is being streamed.
Apica
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Digital Experience Load Testing Media and Entertainment WebThe great about a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. And while Read More. The post Apica Helps HBO Deliver Infinite Streaming Scalability appeared first on Apica.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Permalink. Comments ().
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Leases. By Werner Vogels on 21 September 2012 06:00 PM. Permalink. Comments ().
TechBeacon Testing
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Political messages have invaded our social media. It's a strange time. We work from home. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it.
DZone
JUNE 8, 2020
There are the above-mentioned family ones, social media, and what’s amounting to an endless stream of news. You’ve got a finicky toddler who won’t eat breakfast, a spouse or partner loudly watching Netflix in the living room, and a dog that’s begging for an extra play session.
Tim Kadlec
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Unsized Media. The unsized-media policy tells the browser that all media elements should have size attributes, and if they don’t, the browser should choose a default. There is a LOT of unsized-media out there (I’m guilty too!)
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.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
The ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF) is the key packaging standard in the entertainment industry as recently recognized with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
Simform
OCTOBER 18, 2020
Explore and understand practical applications of AWS Lambda from real-time data processing, text-to-speech, media transformation to image recognition engine and personalized content delivery model.
CSS Wizardry
MAY 19, 2020
While there are a number of ways to achieve this, I’d dare say the simplest and most ubiquitous is Filament Group’s print media type trick. This is the danger of the print media hack.
Apica
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Digital Experience Load Testing Media and Entertainment WebThe great about a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. And while Read More. The post Apica Helps HBO Deliver Infinite Streaming Scalability appeared first on Apica.
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. improvement in media rebuffers.
Dynatrace
MAY 6, 2020
Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Media p erformance . Dynatrace news.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media.
Rigor
JANUARY 13, 2020
When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping.
DZone
MARCH 6, 2021
Considering that some major financial and social media apps may share data with literally hundreds of partners, that's a bigger undertaking than you might imagine. Smaller companies have traditionally been able to tolerate quirks and technical issues when deploying an app, but larger enterprises have never really had this luxury.
Jos
JUNE 2, 2018
One of the best examples is Vox Media , the company behind The Verge and other high trafficked sites. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster. Vox Media took some performance metrics (first paint, page complete and speed index) and decided on a target. One of Vox Media’s posts where they gave an update on their efforts. Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast.
The Netflix TechBlog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Test Area: Requested Media Profile Validation A Netflix capable STB should request accurate media streams from our cloud service for optimal user experience. This ensures that the media streams requested by DUT accurately reflect its HDMI capabilities and the active HDMI topology.
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? The srcset , sizes , and media attributes allow the and elements to be extended by offering the browser additional information, such as different image sources as well as different display sizes and media conditions.
CSS Wizardry
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Split Your Media Types. So if achieving Critical CSS is proving quite tricky—and it probably is—another option we have is to split our main CSS file out into its individual Media Queries. If we can split that single, all-render blocking file into its respective Media Queries: Then we see that the network treats files differently: CSS files not required to render the current context are assigned a Lowest priority.
Rigor
JANUARY 13, 2020
When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping.
Website Optimization
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
In 2018 alone, total media ad spending will rise 7.4% Digital media will account for 43.5% With the rapid growth of online advertising, viewer attention is becoming increasingly scarce. to $638 billion. of this total ad spend (eMarketer 2018) and will surpass conventional advertising by 2021. With online browsers bombarded with more and more advertising the trick is to capture their limited attention with compelling ads.
Scalegrid
MAY 13, 2020
Greenplum customers include American Express, Walmart, Asurian, Bank of America, and many more across the banking, professional services, media, insurance, healthcare, automotive and retail markets.
CSS Wizardry
AUGUST 13, 2019
By setting a non-matching media type, the browser naturally loads the stylesheet with a low priority off of the Critical Path. Once the file has loaded, the inline onload event handler swaps to a matching media type, and this change then applies the stylesheet to the document, swapping the fonts in. Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any of the following issues.
CSS - Tricks
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
main stylesheet and JS files) while others may be less important (like images or stylesheets for other media types). A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik.
Jos
APRIL 6, 2018
You might have come across them in react-media or unstated. Look at this example taken from react-media: const MyComponent = ( ) = > (. < < Media query = " (max-width: 599px)" >. </ Media >. ) ; The Media component calls its children passing a matches argument. This way, the children components don’t need to know about the media query. Componentization has marked a before and after in web development.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 31, 2010
AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage media for transport. Punch cards are paper-based storage media that represent data using the presence or absence of holes in specific positions
SQL Server According to Bob
DECEMBER 18, 2018
This means data can be stored in file system cache, non-stable media. ) An fsync/fdatasync is used to make sure the data is stored in stable media. The stable media write(s) occurs during the sync operation and can fail for any number of reasons (out of disk space, lost connectivity to SAN, etc.) The next sync returns ESUCCESS, meaning the the write(s), which were in cache, do not flush to stable media but applications were told they did.
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work.
CSS - Tricks
APRIL 1, 2021
About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. A <link rel="stylesheet"> that doesn’t have the disabled attribute to inform the browser to not download the CSS and doesn’t have a media attribute that matches the user’s device.
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