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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. We use AES Galois/Counter Mode, as it also provides good performance and high throughput. Reduced Handshake TLS 1.2

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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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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

Let’s look at the performance implications of getting Critical CSS right. We actually have a synchronous JS file that takes longer than the CSS does 4 : performance. Note that the CSS file is marked as blocking (see the orange cross), and thus carries Highest priority and hits the network first. performance. It’s a Race.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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Streamlining Success: The Crucial Role of Web Services Testing

DZone

Web services are necessary for seamless data exchange and effective communication between various software components, whether it be an e-commerce platform, a banking application, or a social media network. Thorough testing is essential to guaranteeing the dependability, security, and performance of these web services.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.