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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. media search index, locations search index, and so forth) in future. When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Data ingestion pipeline with Operation Management

The Netflix TechBlog

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. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions. The upstream service calls the existing and new replacement services concurrently to minimize any latency increase on the production path. For instance, envision a response payload that delivers media streams for a playback session.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Making Cloud.typography Fast(er)

CSS Wizardry

To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. header , meaning that we will always make an outgoing request for this resource regardless of whether or not we’re hitting the site from a cold or a warm cache. com , which introduces yet more latency for the connection setup.

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

All Things Distributed

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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