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. Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, as businesses of all kinds adopt cloud-native and open source technologies, their environments become more flexible. See how causation-based AIOps is a game-changer. Especially, how your organization can speed risk analysis, remediation, and collaboration with Davis.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The following resources demonstrate how Dynatrace’s causation-based AI is changing the game for AIOps to bring real-time root-cause analysis to your AWS environment and beyond.?. Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability. The need for speed has never been more urgent in today’s hyper-digital age.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. To give you some examples, I've been talking to a few gaming companies lately, and their conversations are about the need for speed and flexibility in scaling, both in and out. Atomic slot migration. With peak demand of 1.5

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Games Retail Latency Education 96

Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The good news is that there are hacks that can speed up the entire recovery process, although they all have their own quirky limitations. Stay tuned folks; the game is afoot. And, of course, timing is critical. So there you have it. Too bad such a feature doesn’t exist… or does it?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple? The adoption of an externalized rule evaluation engine was a major game-changer.

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Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 218

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

But once established, these game-changing practices and the automation that comes with them can take your software delivery practices to the next level. Monitoring sources should be automatic and continuous, and flexible enough to deal with continuous updates. CD may sound daunting to teams already stretched to the limit.

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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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Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

“Offload your brain to code at the speed of thought” . The early years of the company were focused on building on top of Mik’s PhD thesis , supporting the open source Eclipse Mylyn project and our commercial Tasktop Dev offering. We focused on helping developers context switch less and drive productivity.

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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.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Only the larger shops have the bandwidth to really bring someone up to speed. 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. ML models only see numbers, so machine learning is a numbers-in, numbers-out game.

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Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Typical examples include adding dedicated hardware accelerators to speed up encryption and decryption computations. Digital Rights Management for games or multimedia, virtualization on the cloud), and very little to directly help the masses (e.g., New open source ISAs offer a potential way forward out of our current dilemma.

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Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

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. Scenario: .

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic. You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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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. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. Coding From Scratch. Alex Husar. Why is that?

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders. Lagging engines taxed developers and businesses, too, and in the era before pervasive open-source engines, the loss of one lineage may have been a deep loss. Browsers are big, big business. WebKit Is No Charity #.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Still, the plugin is open-source, has a large community around it, and the creators are actively maintaining it. If you want to remove some of the friction that turning a Figma prototype into a working application can bring along, Klaus Schaefer’s open-source plugin Figma-Low-Code is for you. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Clearly, we want to give freedom to our content creators, but we can leave to chance neither the resolution nor the speed of delivery and download of the images that will be displayed on our website.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Source: [link]. Preact is an alternative to React developed by Jason Miller and many contributors under the open-source MIT license. Yet, they ultimately pick up the speed.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

If you're interested in the intellectual history of strategy, its origins, and its evolution from military thought to game theory to business, I highly recommend Lawrence Freedman's "Strategy: A History" (Oxford University Press). Improve time to market/speed of operations. The History of Strategy. Cross-sell more products.

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Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Typically, Customers avoid installing native applications due to reasons like space restrictions, annoying notifications affecting the mobile speed, and sometimes a quick review of the application doesn’t essentially require installation. It’s free and mostly open-source. Advantages. Very supportive community.

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Mobile Testing Testing Tools Programming 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 Strings Use Cases.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. While it's possible to game Lighthouse and get high scores for poorly built pages , for the most part Lighthouse scores and audits are a good thing. > Speed Index (Synthetic).

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The website is a collection of songs collected over decades and now searchable, with filters by genre, speed, country, and time period. The open-source project revives the times when computers came with a monochrome display and ran on 4.77Mhz and 64KB of RAM. Image credit: Radiooooo ). A Trip Back To The Early-Days Of Computing.

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Website Design Open Source Games 134

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

This is playing out now with video conferencing, screen-sharing , and streamed gaming (e.g. Instead of directly going after AAA games, we should instead find segments of gaming that can be mostly unlocked by what we've already got plus a small number of critical additions that unlock the key experience features.

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Games Hardware Java Mobile 64

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. It may appear that the game is not worth the candle. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In today’s rapidly evolving cloud-native landscape, managing observability efficiently can be a game-changer for any platform. Here’s why: Speed and simplicity: Writing a provider from scratch requires a deep understanding of the external system API and how Crossplane manages resources.

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