The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. In this tech blog, we describe the relevance of this partnership to the industry and cover some of our own experiences so far.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

“The economic problem of society…is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.” Friedrich A. Hayek, “ The Use of Knowledge in Society ” Silicon Valley venture capitalists and many entrepreneurs espouse libertarian values. I disagree. Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The WaterBear team produces their own original films and documentaries and hosts curated films and content from various high-profile partners, including award-winning filmmakers, large brands, and significant non-governmental organizations (NGOs), like Greenpeace, WWF, The Jane Goodall Institute, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Nikon, and many others.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Here's a dystopian vision of the future: A real announcement I recorded on the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train. The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." I've subtitled it so you can watch in silence.) pic.twitter.com/ZoRWtdcSMy. — James O'Malley (@Psythor) October 29, 2018.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Video files? 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. After consulting Gatsby’s documentation, I discovered I needed to use the gatsby-source-filesystem plugin to make queries for local files. Easy enough!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Our quasi-experimentation helps us constantly improve our streaming experience, giving our members fewer buffers and ever better video quality. What does this title mean within a given company, or even within a given industry? It can be hard to know from the outside. Learning through data is in Netflix’s DNA.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This comprehensive guide will look at the advantages, considerations, best practices, and future trends in web development outsourcing in 2023. A well-designed and practical website is a must-have in today’s digital environment for companies of all sizes, especially when you are out there hiring a web development company.

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Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Started self-hosting I haven’t spent a lot of time yet converting cppfront’s own code from today’s syntax 1 to my alternate syntax 2 (which I’m calling “Cpp1” and “Cpp2” for short), but I started with all of cppfront’s reflection API and metafunctions which are now mostly written in Cpp2.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Dynatrace news. Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering answers this need so organizations can deliver robust, resilient cloud-native applications that can stand up under any conditions.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

[link] [link] --> Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is my favourite Core Web Vital. It’s the easiest to optimise, and it’s the only one of the three that works the exact same in the lab as it does in the field (don’t even get me started on this…). of origins had good LCP 94.9% of origins had good FID 70.6% of origins had good CLS 39.0% First Paint.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Think curbside delivery for groceries, video conferencing for work and school, and telemedicine for doctor visits. Think curbside delivery for groceries, video conferencing for work and school, and telemedicine for doctor visits. Dynatrace news. The past 12 months have caused tectonic shifts in how businesses operate.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? Back in the day, performance was often a mere afterthought. Quick Wins.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Search engine optimization is undoubtedly one of the best digital marketing approaches. It has carved a niche for itself by offering a wide range of benefits to businesses. With a carefully crafted SEO strategy, you can rank your website at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords. The top three results in Google SERPs get 54.4%

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m posting this on the Sunday before re:Invent, and will update as I find out more during the week… Sustainability Track Sessions and Workshops What follows are the catalog descriptions of the talks, after I’ve watched the videos I’ll update this post with my own commentary.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I spent some time before the session, reading Carlota’s book, watching a video of her speak earlier this year, and producing some maps that I hoped would represent her ideas. All the maps are available as clone links below, and these links create your own private copy of the live map that you can play around with.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Testsigma

JUNE 12, 2021

In most cases, they divide their work in sprints – a repeatable fixed time-box during which all tasks for a deliverable are planned and executed. After each sprint, the target is to complete as many planned tasks as possible and come up with a deliverable. A user story is the smallest unit of work in an agile framework.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

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Tasktop

MAY 27, 2021

In this third installment of our Tasty Dog Food series, we continue to share stories of how we’re using our own product, Tasktop Viz , internally to boost our growth and happiness. And there comes a time in a product’s life cycle where you just have to prioritize tech debt for the sake of future acceleration.”.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The typical steps in identifying individuals from surveillance videos are as follows: The video is split into frames, and analysed image-by-image. Each face is input to a face embedding model that converts it into a fixed length vector for future searching. A quick primer on facial recognition.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

The Future Of Frontend Build Tools. The Future Of Frontend Build Tools. Alexander Joseph. 2022-06-09T09:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-09T09:04:03+00:00. Frontend build tooling is crucial to the workflow of the modern frontend developer for a host of reasons classified under improved developer and user experiences. The present.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Barry Pollard. 2021-06-02T12:30:00+00:00. 2021-06-02T13:32:39+00:00. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) attempts to measure those jarring movements of the page as new content — be it images, advertisements, or whatever — comes into play later than the rest of the page. Why CLS Is Different.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Carson Shold. 2021-05-06T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-05-06T14:08:46+00:00. The dreaded refactor of old code can be challenging. I’ve been building Shopify themes for the better part of a decade. Our Goal Was Simple. Less blocking JS.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The State Of Web Workers In 2021. The State Of Web Workers In 2021. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. I’m weary of always comparing the web to so-called “native” platforms like Android and iOS. The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple bars web apps from the only App Store allowed on iOS. [1]. Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. This is a bold assertion, and proving it requires overwhelming evidence. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? theme of the ML Platform meetup hosted at Netflix, Los Gatos on Sep 12, 2019. Contextual and Multi-armed Bandits enable faster and adaptive alternatives to traditional A/B Testing. They enable rapid learning and better decision-making for product rollouts.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

I can confirm from my own personal experiences, although it’s not always the case. Using this visualisation, we can go further and identify patterns which will guide our technology strategy and software development investments in the present and the future. A concept known as the Core Domain. This represents a compelling ROI.

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Testsigma

JULY 13, 2021

The world wide web hosts over 1.7 billion websites today. The reason for this big number is obvious – the web has become the modern marketplace and to be able to get visitors, a place here has become essential. For an online business, a website becomes the first impression. The one obvious way of ensuring this is via testing.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sample use cases for label-based Access Control in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Let’s say you are a member of a company selling a subscription-based streaming service that provides a wide variety of TV shows, movies and other video content to its subscribers. to monitor and diagnose. +50

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This" can mean anything from design and features to our own internal processes. Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a video walkthrough of the Vitals dashboard.). Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). Here are some of the highlights.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning. Whether it’s at a cafe or through a wall of an apartment, it is always disruptive. Linux to the rescue? In Linux, the current mainstream solution is CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler).

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If the output of a model can’t be owned by a human, who (or what) is responsible if that output infringes existing copyright? Generative AI stretches our current copyright law in unforeseen and uncomfortable ways. If a human writes software to generate prompts that in turn generate an image, is that copyrightable?

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Tasktop

MAY 12, 2021

Eating your own dog food,” “ice creaming,” “drinking your own champagne” — whatever you want to call it — refers to a company using its own product, either to test drive it or to show confidence in it. Debts: Work to improve future delivery by addressing process, skill or technical debt. The Tasty Dog Food Series: 1.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? theme of the ML Platform meetup hosted at Netflix, Los Gatos on Sep 12, 2019. Contextual and Multi-armed Bandits enable faster and adaptive alternatives to traditional A/B Testing. They enable rapid learning and better decision-making for product rollouts.

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