IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. To streamline this process, we standardized media assets with pre-processing steps that create and store dedicated quality-controlled derivatives with associated snapshotted metadata. Background Match Cutting is a video editing technique.

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

by Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Lukas Krasula, Zhi Li, and Pulkit Tandon Introducing the banding artifacts detector developed by Netflix aiming at further improving the delivered video quality Banding artifacts can be pretty annoying. Just a subtle change in the video signal can cause banding artifacts. Banding artifact?

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Open Source Metrics Government Systems 195

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video. We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. is the story nearly as thrilling and emotional?

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 182

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Generating machine learning based personalized recommendations to discover new people, photos, videos, and stories relevant one’s interest. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. This process gets executed when non-celebrity users makes a post on Instagram. Out of Scope.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. This ensures that customers can quickly navigate through product listings, add items to their cart, and complete the checkout process without experiencing noticeable delays. or above for the checkout process.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Repeat the evaluation process after deploying and testing each new update or fix.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2022

For example, they may use mobile crash analysis tools, classic APM tools, AI operations tools, or any sort of legacy monitoring for the network, infrastructure, logs, or real users. Watch the video below or read on to see how easy it is to get started with Dynatrace mobile monitoring. Instrumenting native mobile apps with Dynatrace.

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Mobile Monitoring Development Programming 196

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As an example, to render the screen shown here, the app sends a query that looks like this: paths: ["videos", 80154610, "detail"] A path starts from a root object , and is followed by a sequence of keys that we want to retrieve the data for. Instead, it is part of a different path : [videos, <id>, similars].

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. As a result, security teams struggle with: Manual processes —installation, configuration and invocation. Business impact —shows the connection of processes to sensitive data.

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Social Media Open Source Media Cloud 192

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)?

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Video files? This article is the first of a brief two-part series where we will look specifically at the media you are most likely to use: images, video, and audio. Solving Image Headaches In Gatsby I think that the process of optimizing images can fall into four different buckets: Optimize image files. You get the idea.

Media 79

Media Network Processing Code 79

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. Pay the storage, network, and compute cost.

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Also, the amount of data that is required for the page, and the complexity of the route it must travel through, will determine the amount of carbon released by the network itself.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Bill English : What we did was lease two video circuits from the phone company. That was our video link. Doug Engelbart : It was the very first time the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time videoconferencing. Homemade modems.

Internet 141

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 141

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When a problem occurs, we put on our detective hats and start our mystery-solving process by gathering evidence. Distributed tracing is the process of generating, transporting, storing, and retrieving traces in a distributed system. For engineers, instead of whodunit, the question is often “what failed and why?”

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Establish a performance culture. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Purpose built for modern cloud and single-page applications, Session Replay overcomes the limitations of traditional network-based approaches and other point solutions, which are unable to provide integrated visibility into modern environments. The following video shows a session recorded with the Mask all preset enabled.

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Ecommerce Monitoring Website Tuning 191

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Partners across the globe leverage Netflix device certification process on a continual basis to ensure that quality products and experiences are delivered to their customers. The certification process involves the verification of partner’s implementation of features provided by the Netflix SDK. Detect a regression in a test case.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

Erica Sinclair is helping us get LSH probabilities right Dimensionality reduction uses linear algebra or artificial neural networks to place semantically similar words, sentences, and log lines near to each other in a new vector space, using representations known as embeddings. 0.3, -0.5, -0.7, and “problem authenticating” might be [0.1,

Development 177

Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 156

Internet Internet Scalability Software Engineering 156

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. My team measured the impact, noting that on the first load, this video category page serves up as many as 14 images. After scrolling the video category page, a bunch more images are loaded.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. The discoveries form inputs into the software development and delivery process, so new software and microservices will better stand up to unforeseeable events. The history of chaos engineering. Blast radius.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Video – For the first time in the many years that I've been covering the topic of page growth, I'm going to focus on the volume of video that pages contain. Largest Contentful Paint – LCP measures when the largest visual element (image or video) in the viewport finishes rendering. More on that later.) That's huge.

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Particular Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re a long-time video game player like me, your muscle-memory vividly remembers the F5 key’s location on your keyboard. Why are we talking about video games when we have important business (let’s say, selling video games) to do? There’s payment processing, inventory, shipping, and very likely a customer management system.

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Games Retail Network Code 64

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. To mitigate this, they pass the request by shortening the TLS handshake process. ConclusionContent Delivery Networks have revolutionized the way we access content online.

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Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Tech News Gather

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Millions of people are investing their regular money in purchasing cartoon-type video clips and using the same money to sell them to another person with impressive popularity and demand. A person can easily buy anything like tweets, unique flowers, or videos through a smartphone.

Blockchain 52

Blockchain Media Network Speed 52

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

Natural language processing has come a very long way since then, having burnt through a good few paradigms to get to something we can use on a daily basis. DeepMind’s Gato is an AI model that can be taught to carry out many different kinds of tasks based on a single transformer neural network. billion parameters.

Games 103

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 103

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021. I contributed ideas to the WAS and helped shepherd it through the release process as executive sponsor for the cross Amazon and AWS team that wrote and released it.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch!

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match. To mitigate this, they pass the request by shortening the TLS handshake process. All the actions and the moves of your characters are happening in real-time.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 22, 2021

This is consistent with the North American television broadcasting standard ATSC A/85 and AES71 recommendations for online video distribution. As such, it is common to compute DRC parameters at encode-time, when processing power and lookahead is ample. Netflix specifically aims to play all dialogue at the same level.

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Programming Mobile Network Testing 269