The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Contextual and Multi-armed Bandits enable faster and adaptive alternatives to traditional A/B Testing. Broadly speaking, these approaches can be seen as a stepping stone to full-on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with closed-loop, on-policy evaluation and model objectives tied to reward functions.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

How does Apple justify such a policy ? The purpose of this rule is to protect user privacy and security. Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

This makes it very safe and sensible to enforce a reasonably aggressive cache policy. for fear of abuse where privacy is concerned, so the shared cache technique cannot work for, at the time of writing, 16% of users worldwide. This is a pretty quick way to make eight mill. All completely avoidable. to just 3.6s.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Contextual and Multi-armed Bandits enable faster and adaptive alternatives to traditional A/B Testing. Broadly speaking, these approaches can be seen as a stepping stone to full-on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with closed-loop, on-policy evaluation and model objectives tied to reward functions.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Misdirections often derail the debate around browsers, the role of the web, and App Store policies on iOS. Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. Spurious reports of "10x worse" performance merit intense scepticism. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Performance space, our data teams currently focus on the quality of experience on Netflix-enabled devices.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple's Long-Standing Policies Are Anti-Diversity "WebKit couldn't compete if it had to." Apple's Long-Standing Policies Are Anti-Diversity #. A refresher on Apple's iOS browser policies: From iOS 2.0 A refresher on Apple's iOS browser policies: From iOS 2.0 What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Testing And Monitoring.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

This technique enables participants to log interactions with others so that they can discover if they are in a chain of contacts originating with someone, often a stranger, who subsequently tests positive for the virus. This is accomplished in advance of a positive test, enabling immediate notifications when the need arises.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In enterprises, we’ve seen everything from wholesale adoption to policies that severely restrict or even forbid the use of generative AI. Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. Another piece of the same puzzle is the lack of a policy for AI use.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

As seen in the discussions about privacy at Facebook and AI-powered imaging at Google among other examples, when there are no ethical considerations during the creation of technology then the interaction between humans is compromised. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Putting It Into Practice.

Code 137

Code Design Education Government 137

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Swift Papers felt like a well-scoped project to test how well AI handles a realistic yet manageable real-world programming task. Perhaps future AI tool developers could use Swift Papers as a benchmark to assess how well their tool performs on an example real-real-world programming task.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Office staff usually perform tasks like invoice processing by filling in a web form. Most are subject to privacy regulations.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), HTTP/3 performance features. This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself.

Network 104

Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 18, 2022

AI audit firms tend to perform a mix of audits and assessments. Audits are usually more official, tracking adherence to some policy, regulation, or law, and tend to be conducted by independent third parties with varying degrees of limited interaction between auditor and auditee organizations. being the only law firm of the bunch.

Artificial Intelligence 116

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