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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. You can also find optimization plugins or caching solutions that give you access to a CDN.

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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

For these reasons, as a small engineering team, we’ve found that optimizing for reliability and speed of product delivery is required for us to serve our evolving customers’ needs successfully. Kotlin Multiplatform approaches cross-platform mobile development differently from some well known technologies in the space.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Generally, the storage technology categorizes data into landing, raw, and curated zones depending on its consumption readiness. Emerging technology frameworks. Disadvantages.

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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. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

Forging relationships to assist VFX studios Netflix is proud to announce that we have teamed-up with key partners AWS and Conductor Technologies to provide our diverse roster of VFX studios around the globe with special access to essential resources that simplify the migration path to cloud infrastructure.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. large portions of the entire Netflix catalog are re-encoded whenever we’ve made significant advancements in encoding technology. Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk.

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