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Gossip Protocol in Social Media Networks: Instagram and Beyond

DZone

This article will discuss the gossip protocol in detail, followed by its potential implementation in social media networks, including Instagram. Gossip Protocol The gossip protocol is based on an epidemic algorithm that uses randomized communication to propagate information among nodes in a network.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. Therefore, it requires more messages to perform a handshake and two network round trips. improvement in media rebuffers.

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Split Your Media Types. Employ Critical CSS. The practical upshot of this is that the browser will….

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Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Juan Diego RodrĂ­guez 2023-10-09T11:00:00+00:00 2023-10-09T21:07:06+00:00 Working with media files in Gatsby might not be as straightforward as expected. I remember starting my first Gatsby project. banner { background-image: url("./assets/images/forest-400.jpg");

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How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget

Smashing Magazine

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. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one.

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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

Note that the CSS file is marked as blocking (see the orange cross), and thus carries Highest priority and hits the network first. priority request, and hits the network after the JavaScript. By switching from an asynchronous media type (i.e. media=print ) to a synchronous media type (e.g. Moving Away From media.

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