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!

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Media Network Code Processing 95

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).

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 235

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.

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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. Until now, we’ve only used adaptive streaming for video.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

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

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

As a database tailored towards enterprise workloads, this provides the ability needed to explore large data sets along with the high performance achieved by paralleling the analytics across your available segment hosts. So who’s using Greenplum today? How to Get Started.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. Selected titles are now available to stream in AV1 for customers who wish to reduce their cellular data usage by enabling the “Save Data” feature.

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Open Source Media Mobile Hardware 167

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. Selected titles are now available to stream in AV1 for customers who wish to reduce their cellular data usage by enabling the “Save Data” feature.

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Open Source Media Mobile Hardware 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

Making fixes available in scripts has benefits, especially if you need to react quickly to unexpected situations. Let’s look at news/media sites, for example (figure 6). Figure 6: Spikes in total load time caused by third-party components on media websites. You might be tempted to write down how to execute them.

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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 285

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. Intersection Queries across Multiple Algorithms Several media understanding algorithms return clip or short-duration video segment suggestions.

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Media Scalability Architecture Strategy 177

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. Cosmos is a computing platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc.,

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 178

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

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. If you’re working with a large or legacy codebase, things get even more difficult…. The practical upshot of this is that the browser will….

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Network Performance Media Cache 279

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. Assets Schema got evolved that required reindexing all assets data again in ElasticSearch to support search/stats queries on new fields.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 243

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

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.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 254

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

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. Thus, the idea was born for a robust, highly available, and scalable backend solution that wouldn’t require the burden of managing a massive storage layer. Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships.

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Database Logistics Availability Storage 119

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

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. For instance, envision a response payload that delivers media streams for a playback session. The service responsible for generating this payload consults a metadata service that provides all available streams for the given title.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If that service is slow, failing, or not available at all it results in frustration mentioned in some of the comments on social media and the app store. Availability. For availability, I always propose to use Dynatrace Synthetic vs looking at real user traffic. Response time.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 246

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.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Disk images, also known as ISOs, are essentially digital replicas of physical media such as CDs, DVDs, or hard drives. One powerful tool available in the Linux world for creating disk images is mkisofs. In the realm of Linux and operating systems, disk imaging plays a vital role in various scenarios.

Systems 147

Systems Media Operating System Availability 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The airline : My preferences for a recent long-haul flight included price and the availability of aisle seats. Which experience am I most likely to share, with friends or on social media? Here are three experiences I had traveling recently that can add some context to the challenges and opportunities inherent in customer experience.

Airlines 264

Airlines Social Media Entertainment Transportation 264

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2019

Here a couple of screenshots from Dynatrace views that Chad took back to Chris, the admin, to discuss the findings: 1: Process Memory not exhausting available host memory. The following chart shows an interesting fact: the notes processes peaked at 593MB even though plenty of memory was still available on the host.

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Java Metrics Best Practices Media 41

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. On December 9, 2021, the first indicators of the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell) began to reverberate across the world.

Social Media 246

Social Media Strategy Media Java 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Then when you have the metric, you want to explore it—what splits are available, how can I break it down, how can I aggregate it, and so on.” Type > to see a list of all available search categories. “Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces. Discovery using the “explore data” interface.

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Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

By simulating user interactions and running tests from various locations worldwide, synthetic monitoring provides a comprehensive view of application performance and availability. Setting up SLOs for mission-critical services helps establish and maintain standards for availability and performance. Before a crisis. During a crisis.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. Seat Pagine Gialle Italia is an Italian media company most famous for producing the Yellow and White Pages directories.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The airline : My preferences for a recent long-haul flight included price and the availability of aisle seats. Which experience am I most likely to share, with friends or on social media? Here are three experiences I had traveling recently that can add some context to the challenges and opportunities inherent in customer experience.

Airlines 246

Airlines Social Media Entertainment Transportation 246

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? Net promoter score.

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Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

This is possible through an innovative technology called Quick Media Switching (QMS) which is an extension of Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) targeted for content playback scenarios. QMS allows a source device to maintain a constant data rate on the HDMI link even during transmission of content with different frame rates.

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Entertainment Engineering Technology Technology 311

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 231

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.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests. First, we deployed the storage engine across multiple storage media — currently RAM and flash disk. Anna v0 enabled multi-master replication of keys, but had a fixed replication factor for all keys.

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