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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

Honestly, in this scenario, my advice is almost always: don’t bother trying to retrofit Critical CSS—just hash-n-cache 1 2 the living daylights out of your existing CSS bundles until you replatform and do it differently next time. By switching from an asynchronous media type (i.e. media=print ) to a synchronous media type (e.g.

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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. For instance, the LikeEvent can be read by the Media Counter Service and is used to update the media count in the data storage.

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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. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Smashing Magazine

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds. Redesigning the social media coverage is briefly mentioned as one way to save approximately 1.4MB. Michelle Barker. 2022-02-03T12:00:00+00:00.

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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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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

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. We’re also able to adopt a more deliberate caching strategy, only cache busting the files that need it and leaving the rest untouched.

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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. Teams generally want to run algorithms and create annotations using all those media files.

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