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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 30th, 2021

High Scalability

This channel is the perfect blend of programming, hardware, engineering, and crazy. After watching you’ll feel inadequate, but in an entertained sort of way. Hey, HighScalability is back! Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Do employees at your company need to know about the cloud?

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Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists

The Netflix TechBlog

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses.

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Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology

The Netflix TechBlog

Hardware video decoders need to know in advance the resolution and bit depth of the video streams to allocate their decoding buffers. Many other elements of signaling are provided in our packaged content to enable the viewing to start as quickly as possible and in the best possible conditions. That is where standards play a key role.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above).

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

This type of database offers scalability with no downtime along with giving businesses control over what resources they use through customization capabilities such as choosing hardware infrastructure options or building security measures around it. These advantages come at an expense.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP! Enter Google! I’m jumping ahead a bit here, but the component of Snap which provides the transport and communications stack is called Pony Express.

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