The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

According to a recent Forbes articles, Internet users are creating 2.5 Automation is the ultimate game changer,” McConnell said. You must enable business process automation to improve that environment I described earlier of that NOC (Network Operations Center) of manual engagement. quintilion bytes of data each day.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. RAISES HAND* 6.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Use cases for RabbitMQ encompass areas like order processing in eCommerce, real-time notifications, and multiplayer gaming, showcasing its adaptability to different operational needs. RabbitMQ in IoT Applications The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem depends greatly on effective inter-device communication.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Purpose-built databases. Amazon Neptune is a fully-managed graph database service.

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Database AWS Games Latency 166

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This zero-day vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device or Internet-based application if the device or app runs certain versions of Log4j 2, a popular Java library. How Dynatrace Application Security changed the game for Avisi’s Log4Shell response.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months). Lors de ses quatre années d’existence, elle a réussi à se développer jusqu’à réunir plus de 1,3 milliards d’utilisateurs sur Internet.

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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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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in the Nordics help customers migrate to the cloud.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

With the launch of the AWS Europe (London) Region, AWS can enable many more UK enterprise, public sector and startup customers to reduce IT costs, address data locality needs, and embark on rapid transformations in critical new areas, such as big data analysis and Internet of Things.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted. Why would we want to live migrate web workers?

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Converging Views.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. This device to device messaging supported early phone-to-TV communication in support of games like Triviaverse, and it’s the messaging foundation for our Companion Mode as TVs and phones communicate back and forth.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. An Android tablet, set up for toddler streaming and gaming.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). PWA Feature Detector. A well-behaved CCT-invoking-app (e.g.,

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

According to US copyright law, everything published in any form, including on the internet, is automatically copyrighted by the author for the life of its creator, plus 70 years. Even on today’s internet these mechanisms are fragile, complex, change frequently, and are often not well understood by sites whose content is being scraped.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. To make sure that the game was responsive and smooth even on these phones, we embraced an Actor-like architecture. Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. You have control over what these resources are.

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VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. High latency feels like a sluggish internet connection, making online activities feel like a conversation with a delay in responses. Imagine the highway as your internet connection, and the vehicles on it are the data packets.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Safe communication : Transmission of sensitive data over networks without encryption may cause havoc to user sensitive data. The expected behaviour is that the app should resume the game from where the user left it.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., The destination endpoint for the network traffic typically identifies the SDK responsible.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. The VM is reachable from the Internet? As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. This has been the case for well over half a century.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

If you need to bet anywhere with internet access, these apps will allow you to do so on sports betting and casino gambling. Depositing to your gaming account is very fast. Then, tick the box if you agree to the Terms and Conditions of 1win in India and click on “Register”; Registration through social networks.

Games 52

Games Website Mobile Government 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A social network without notifications? Businesses will get the message worldwide: if you want to be on the homescreen and deliver services that aren't foundationally compromised, the only game in town is Apple's app store. You can't build credible mobile experiences without these features. A notetaking app that randomly loses data?

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Storage Engineering Games Design 114

Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2012

I’m giving the opening talk, and the rest of the day is full of useful technical information on everything from XAML and DirectX to networking and VC++ compiler flags. We will have pragmatic advice for every developer writing Metro style apps and games with XAML and/or DirectX and C++. Building Windows 8 games with DirectX and C++.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

Today, when people are working from home, they are using personal or company-provided laptops to connect to the office network. Mostly we are using a virtual desktop to stay connected to the organization’s network. Any technical glitch such as a network bandwidth issue can impact the output of the whole organization.

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Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Introduction With the recent rollout of the 5G network across the world, it is ensured that the mobile industry will revolutionize and the way we interact will completely change. With the increase in speed and less latency, there are a lot of possibilities that can be explored in the field of the internet of things (IOT) and smart devices.

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Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence IoT 40

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Vendors like Apple. ??.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. If your mobile app is some arcade game security testing is probably of a minimum priority. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. hours, is being spent on mobile applications.

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