Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Media Testing Entertainment 117

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

All data should be also available for offline analytics in Hive/Iceberg. Our team, Asset Management Platform, owns a different service that has a json based DSL to describe the schema of a media asset. Our architecture makes it possible to easily onboard and ingest data from Media algorithms. Annotations can be versioned.

Scalability 291

Scalability Latency Media Architecture 291

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection. Media is split into many small segments (chunks) and each chunk contains a few seconds of playback data. Media is provided in several qualities. This ultimately leads to a rebuffer.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. The Marshall Project Mixes Media.

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Design Internet Internet Mobile 139

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal , Burak Bacioglu Introduction At Netflix, to promote and recommend the content to users in the best possible way there are many Media Algorithm teams which work hand in hand with content creators and editors. Teams generally want to run algorithms and create annotations using all those media files.

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Media Latency Architecture Database 272

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Web design had stagnated, predictability had replaced creativity, and ideas seemed less important than data. Design had lost its joyfulness.

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Design Media Energy Innovation 107

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) Juan Diego Rodríguez 2023-10-16T13:00:00+00:00 2023-10-16T16:23:46+00:00 Gatsby is a true Jamstack framework. That includes media files, like images, video, and audio. Which plugins should be used for certain types of media?

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Media Website Availability Code 103

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

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Design Media Energy Availability 123

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Meenakshi Jindal Overview At Netflix, we built the asset management platform (AMP) as a centralized service to organize, store and discover the digital media assets created during the movie production. Cassandra Table Design Based on the asset type, first time buckets are fetched which depends on the creation time of assets.

Media 243

Media Traffic Processing Design 243

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Media C++ Technology 132

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

Systems 235

Systems Media Cache Open Source 235

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. Our response was to create Cosmos, a platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices. debian packages).

Serverless 235

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 235

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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Design Media C++ Energy 112

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations. We call this system Cosmos. 4c & 5.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 178

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Juan Diego Rodríguez 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. — of the many, many plugins available for handling images. Easy enough!

Media 95

Media Network Code Processing 95

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Due to the widespread adoption and rich ecosystem of available PHP libraries, all types of security vulnerabilities can be found in PHP applications.

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Social Media Open Source Cloud Media 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Media Open Source Software Engineering Efficiency 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. Every day we access applications to shop online, stream TV shows, connect to social media, manage finances, and work. Dynatrace news. Performance monitoring.

Artificial Intelligence 254

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 254

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

Design 85

Design Media Website Development 85

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

A file and folder interface for Netflix Cloud Services Written by Vikram Krishnamurthy , Kishore Kasi , Abhishek Kapatkar , and Tejas Chopra In this post, we are introducing Netflix Drive, a Cloud drive for media assets and providing a high level overview of some of its features and interfaces.

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Media Storage Architecture Cloud 182

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 77

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

To improve it, we decided to invest in creating a Media Understanding Platform , which enables us to extract meaningful insights from media that we can then surface in our creative tools. The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.)

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Media Scalability Architecture Strategy 177

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Split Your Media Types. So if achieving Critical CSS is proving quite tricky—and it probably is—another option we have is to split our main CSS file out into its individual Media Queries. console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design. This is on purpose.

Network 279

Network Performance Media Cache 279

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Consolidating on one methodology could be a challenge, as we may face different design or data constraints or optimization goals. Within-country quasi design to measure the impact of TV ads in France and Germany. Geographic units are defined based on the lowest level of media buying capability.

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Metrics Media Design Testing 186

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The most important things to have in mind, and measure KPIs for, when working towards delivery of excellent Digital Experiences are: Availability: Is the touchpoint available when the user wants to use it? Is the functionality available frictionless? I tend to lean towards social media for evaluating this.

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Social Media Mobile Google Ecommerce 229

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. When you work in design for any length of time, forming habits is natural. This repetition can be fabulous for your productivity, but when each design looks much like your last, you can quickly begin to feel jaded. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Energy Website Media 90

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In the real world, content often differs vastly from the neat, perfectly fitting content presented in designs. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

Development 142

Development Media Design Mobile 142

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Even if you didn’t study graphic design at art school, you might know a few famous names. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

Design 87

Design Media Website Speed 87

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data. DRM is a collection of access control technologies that are used for protecting the copyrights of digital media such as movies and music tracks.

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C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 321

Smashing Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

When we write media queries for a UI element, we always describe how that element is styled depending on the screen dimensions. This approach works well when the responsiveness of the target element media query should only depend on viewport size. Example of how media query cannot be reliably linked to element dimensions.

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Strategy Media Code Mobile 136

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests. In order to implement these mechanisms, we had to make two significant changes to the design of Anna. First, we deployed the storage engine across multiple storage media — currently RAM and flash disk.

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Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security. How do you handle availability, security, and integration?â?? ve talked about performance and availability in Amazon Redshift before. Physical media is destroyed before leaving our facilities. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. Comments ().

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Design AWS Hardware Media 87

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Organizations are constantly being measured against the best available digital experiences — coming from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other industry leaders. Some of the factors that affect user experience include: Availability : Is the touchpoint available when the user wants to use it? What ruins a digital experience?

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Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 246

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. The Arms Race. Targeted Manipulation at Scale.

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Social Media Media Internet Internet 145