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Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The case of extra 40 ms

The Netflix TechBlog

i.e. video would play for a very short time, then pause, then start again, then pause. They supplied a video and it looked terrible. I walked upstairs and found the engineer who wrote the audio and video pipeline in Ninja, and he gave me a guided tour of the code. In Ninja, this job is performed by an Android Thread.

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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

We had some fun getting hardware figured out, and I used a 3D printer to make some cases, but the whole project was interrupted by the delivery of the iPhone by Apple in late 2007. I showed the iPhone to people at Netflix, as it had excellent quality video playback, but they werent interested. I use mine most days to watch videos.

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Page bloat update: How does ever-increasing page size affect your business and your users?

Speed Curve

Video – Over the past couple of years, video has proliferated hugely. This is a potential cause for concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. Learn how to optimize images. More on that below.)

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. Video encoding is essentially a search problem?—?the

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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms.

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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

The Netflix TechBlog

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams. AV1-libaom compression efficiency as measured against VP9-libvpx.

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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

The Netflix TechBlog

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams. AV1-libaom compression efficiency as measured against VP9-libvpx.