The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

How To Build A Real-Time Multi-User Game From Scratch. How To Build A Real-Time Multi-User Game From Scratch. The same night I set out to build the first prototype for a game that would become Autowuzzler. The game stage was embedded in a Next.js and wanted to focus mainly on the game. Martin Grubinger.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

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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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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 260

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A set of programming models has emerged to help developers define and train AI models with deep learning; along with open source frameworks that put deep learning in the hands of mere mortals. Some examples of popular deep learning frameworks that we support on AWS include Caffe, CNTK, MXNet, TensorFlow, Theano, and Torch.

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AWS Open Source Scalability Programming 163

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. Scalability Strategies for IoT Networks As the number of devices connected to IoT networks expands, ensuring scalability becomes crucial.

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Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Similarly, relationships are essential in many other use cases such as financial modeling, risk analysis, genome research, search, gaming, and others. A concrete example is generating a product recommendation based on purchase interests of a user’s friends, where the relevant social connections are a small subset of the total network.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Mark Szulyovszky : Would I have thought 3 years ago that we end up building a mobile tech stack on Microsoft’s & Facebook’s open source code, wishing that Google’s and Apple’s clunky and slow middle layer would disappear? There more.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Maybe start investing into open source alternatives rather than complaining they don't already exist? Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. And even that list is not invulnerable.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. 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. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. ut, when planning your cloud strategy, you’ve got to think about the long game: saving money upfront might mean more costs down the line, like moving data around. Thinking about going multi-cloud?

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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

these engines were not trained on human games. we also have large databases of human games available though, we have a recognised method of assessing player skill levels (rating points). These are very likely to be the areas that a 1500-rated player should work on to improve their game and take it to the next level. AlphaZero).

Systems 85

Systems Games Engineering Open Source 85

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

If a problem calls for a shiny new technique, or a large, branching neural network, someone on your team needs to handle that. The code we write looks very similar across companies and even industries, since so much of it is based on those open-source tools’ call semantics. It does not exist in the code.

Tuning 145

Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021 court arguments in the case of EPIC Games vs. Apple (slide image). WebKit is an open-source web engine that allows Apple to enable improvements contributed by third parties. Apple's Open Source Claim #. The open source nature of WebKit is indisputable as a legal technicality.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

It is safe, fast, compatible, open-source, and easy to learn. Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. It is observed that when the layout is changed from landscape to portrait during the game then the application crashes unexpectedly. Compatibility Testing.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

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. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. And a quick survey of agent-based modeling and evolutionary algorithms turns up a mix of proprietary apps and nascent open-source projects, some of which are geared for a particular problem domain.

Hardware 135

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 135

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. Platforms played these user-and-developer hostile games in mobile's early days to dig a moat of OS-exclusive apps.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

KeyCDN

APRIL 16, 2020

React Created by a former employee of Facebook, React is an open source library backed by Facebook and used in many sites around the world. Dojo Toolkit Another one of the open source JavaScript libraries, the Dojo Toolkit helps develop cross-platform, JavaScript, and Ajax-based websites in a faster manner.

Website 60

Website Open Source Games Code 60

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. Browsers are big, big business.

Engineering 124

Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable.

Media 125

Media Cache Website Mobile 125

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration. Sentry Sentry is a bit different from the other error tracking tools in that it is open source. If you are a hobbyist you can use Sentry completely free.

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Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

It is a JavaScript library that is open-source and popularly used to construct user interfaces (UIs) for the development of web applications. is an open-source, cross-platform with runtime environment of JavaScript. It has many open-source libraries available for various purposes. What is ReactJS?

Development 52

Development Virtualization Open Source Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When dealing with e-commerce at some point, you probably have heard, and perhaps used Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform. Therefore, we can conclude that it is reasonable to raise your store’s game by optimizing it for m-commerce. These may, for instance, include the game and social media app sectors. Alex Husar.

Code 90

Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Redis List Use Cases.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

As Dodge, the hyper-successful game developer who is the protagonist of Neal Stephenson’s novel Reamde noted, “you had to get the whole money flow system figured out. This architecture is not dissimilar to the model of early online information providers like AOL and the Microsoft Network.

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 133

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 133

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Java arrived with a focus on structured programming (including threads), GUI controls , networking, device access, and graphics. This is playing out now with video conferencing, screen-sharing , and streamed gaming (e.g. high-color image raster.

Games 64

Games Hardware Java Mobile 64

Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Blame games and bad decisions following one incident/outage can lead to further bad decisions and further problems. Use network timeouts There are alternative approaches if we suspect that the connections are just leaked without the application holding them. Not everything can be addressed on the database side.

Servers 107

Servers Database C++ Airlines 107

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52