Remove 2016 Remove Infrastructure Remove Internet Remove Technology
article thumbnail

All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Fixed-ladder HDR encodes have been fully replaced by optimized ones, reducing storage footprint and Internet data usage — and most importantly, improving the video quality for our members. Choudhury, L. Krasula, S.

article thumbnail

Synthetic Monitoring of DNS in Changing Times

DZone

The Importance of DNS for a Healthy Internet. If DNS infrastructure goes down, all the digital services relying on it go down with it. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet’s address system. Picking a DNS vendor is one of the most important choices you can make when it comes to the reliability of your services.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong.

AWS 141
article thumbnail

When to use Testsigma as a cross-browser testing solution for your organization?

Testsigma

billion internet users today. com also says that in 2008 there were 112 different types of browsers people were using to access the internet. 54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile. bn in 2016. PC: Technology vector created by stories – www.freepik.com. Read more about it here.

Testing 52
article thumbnail

World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. That’s why we had to mention Mina , senior front-end engineer at Slack, Sasstronaut , and a truly rare gem in technology. Jake Archibald.

article thumbnail

2017 Wheel of Fortune

J. Paul Reed

In the vein of my 2016 prediction that DevOps will continue dis-integrating , I believe that we’ll see a process of “ othering ” with definitions of DevOps that are not highly aligned with the The Handbook’s definition, along with pressure to rename those ideas to soemthing other than “DevOps.” And we now have that.

DevOps 40
article thumbnail

Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

AWS 166