The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

To handle errors efficiently, Netflix developed a rule-based classifier for error classification called “Pensive.” SQLMesh, an open-source project born from our collective experience at companies like Airbnb, Apple, Google, and Netflix, is designed to handle the complexities of evolving data pipelines at an internet scale.

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Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 206

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud Analytics enable the Industrial Internet of Things. Often when we think about the Internet of Things (IoT) we focus on what this will mean for the consumer.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video.

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 121

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. Cennydd also makes the case that performance also has an impact on energy consumption: In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Say at Netflix that we run a test that aims to reduce some measure of latency, such as the delay between a member pressing play and video playback commencing. Given the variety of devices and internet connections that people use to access Netflix, there is a lot of natural variability in this metric across our users.

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Testing Latency Metrics Design 211

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. There’s a debate among web developers whether or not animated image formats should be ditched altogether in favor of video formats.

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Speed Website Servers Latency 50

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

Its compatibility with MQTT, known for being a compact messaging protocol, Demonstrates its adaptability for use in Internet of Things (IoT) contexts. Looking forward, Scalegrid’s upcoming support for RabbitMQ will offer users even more powerful features and benefits, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of their applications.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. The video is clipped off-screen. I enabled Chrome. Nevertheless….

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

items that share the same hash value in their primary key): e.g. if there is a DynamoDB table with PlayerName as the hash key and GameStartTime as the range key, you can use local secondary indexes to run efficient queries on other attributes like “Score.” Efficient Queries. What are Global Secondary Indexes?

Games 109

Games Scalability Database Retail 109

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers. All kinds of deep and powerful functionality was made available via simple APIs. It always does.

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Programming Google Internet Internet 145

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. Second, the free form text formats and protocols that we’re accustomed to may be too informal and error prone for capturing and reporting facts at Internet scale.

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Social Media Media Internet Internet 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

There are some great examples and use cases for Redis, which you can see at companies like Hudl, which offers mobile and desktop video analytics solutions to sports teams and athletes. ElastiCache for Redis Multi-AZ capability is built to handle any failover case for Redis Cluster with robustness and efficiency. Building upon Redis.

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Scalability Cache Analytics AWS 102

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Are we embedding YouTube videos?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. So, you expect your designer/design agency to be equally as efficient, cutting, and customer-centered in terms of design and UX. How or where can you use them efficiently? And memorable. And easy to understand. And reliable. And carefully arranged. And elaborate.

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Design Website Efficiency Processing 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. This broad range of use cases has helped grow WordPress to power almost 40% of the internet. More after jump!

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP. WebP entered the picture with a much more efficient use of lossy compression (which I’ll explain below) and became the much-needed successor to JPG. Samsung Internet.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Earlier, people only had a desktop and a limited number of browsers to surf the internet. Media : The next important aspect of a fully responsive website is media, i.e. images or videos. It allows you to check your web application on 2000+ real and desktop, iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Edge browsers.

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Design Testing Media Testing Tools 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. When LogRocket detects a bug, it automatically creates a video capturing exactly what users see on their screens.

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Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Several respondents also mentioned working with video: analyzing video data streams, video analytics, and generating or editing videos. We’ve never seen a new technology command so much attention so quickly: not personal computers, not the internet, not the web.

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Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency. People who want get the maximum from their hardware appreciate the fact that we are one of the most efficient products on the market when it comes to resource usage.

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Testsigma

MAY 6, 2021

They require internet connectivity and a browser to run on. billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices.” So many internet users might be running the websites and web applications on their phone browsers. .

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. High latency feels like a sluggish internet connection, making online activities feel like a conversation with a delay in responses.

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Latency Games Traffic Network 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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Code Performance Network Website 104

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines. But is HR cost efficiency for Apple the most important feature of a web engine?

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. SitePoint SitePoint’s straightforward tutorial layout makes it among the most-trafficked web development blogs on the internet. Visit website 3.

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Development Website Design Code 75

Testsigma

MAY 24, 2021

There are a plethora of browsers available in the market for both web browsing and mobile browsing such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. The reporting includes screenshots, video recordings, logs, and detailed reports to cover on all grounds. Sign up Now.

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Website Testing Operating System Testing Tools 52

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Bug management : It takes screenshots, logs, and detailed videos of bugs and crashes. It offers precise insights into efficiency, productivity, and test performance in multiple environments. It offers precise insights into efficiency, productivity, and test performance in multiple environments. 24×7 support.

Testing 52

Testing Testing Tools Website Analytics 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. That’s where rules come in.

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VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

With reduced congestion and latency, users experience faster, more reliable connectivity — even as they move outside across a corporate campus — which enhances efficiency and productivity within an organization while improving user experiences for customer-facing applications.

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Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

per year; the internet users are increasing at an annual growth of 7½%, especially in the developing countries. And to give you the power of testing with speed and for increased test efficiency — automation testing is the way to go. As per Data Reportal , there are over 5.27 Picture credit: Leapwork.

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