The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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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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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 26, 2025

From dynamic UI/UX to seamless social media integration, businesses must adapt their web presence to meet Gen Zs evolving expectations. Their lives revolve around smart gadgets, high-speed internet, and state-of-the-art applications. To members of this generation, technology functions as a fundamental requirement.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

For example, a billion dollar scale Internet Marketing company is using Greenplum advanced analytics to perform audience profiling to understand who their audience is, what they buy, which networks and devices they use, and where they are geographically located so they can better understand and serve their market. How to Get Started.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Adding social media features to your application is a great way help spread the word, without actually doing anything. Social media can bring good traffic for you, the developer, and provide useful features to your user at the same time. Take for example, you made a mobile app that finds funny pictures on the internet.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick. I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editors pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. The Streaming Media editors singled out Cloudfront Streaming Content service as possibly truly disruptive. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2010 03:02 AM.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

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DZone

JUNE 26, 2019

The days of a predominantly text-based Internet are long gone. Video is the most powerful form of media used online today—according to Cisco’s global Internet traffic projections , video content will account for 82 percent of all IP traffic (both business and consumer) by 2022.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 5, 2022

The technologies marketed under the "web3" umbrella are generally not fit for purpose : Jonty Wareing @jonty Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're "buying" and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon 30001 12:30 PM · Mar 17, 2021. Oh, and that URL is not the media. It refers to nothing.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Websites, mobile apps, e-commerce sites, social media content, in-store kiosks, and smart devices all provide a digital experience to customers, partners, and employees and give them a way to interact with a company or brand.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Over on the Polypane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof ( it is )), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data , about the prefers-reduced-data media query. It’s the same spirit with accessibility and the prefers-reduced-motion media query.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). webcam access via getUserMedia() or the Media Session API ) may attend deceptively small expansions in exposed API surface. Media Recorder.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. One of the best examples is Vox Media , the company behind The Verge and other high trafficked sites. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Your video streaming tool should fit into your existing media pipeline. It’s truly a one-stop platform for visual media processing. (vf, Image credit: imgix ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Marshall Project Mixes Media. That it could find a new audience as an animated series online, then be nominated for not one but two Emmys , is testament to the transformative powers of the internet. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story. Maybe a heat map is better than a table.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 10, 2017

More and more we see stories appearing, like this one in HBR by MIT Media Lab's Joi Ito and crew. It praises the power of blockchain as a disruptive technology, on par with how "the internet" changed everything. I am always surprised to see that these far-reaching predictions are made, without diving into the technology itself.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

(Ben Thompson ends his article by saying that Sydney doesn’t feel like a search engine; it feels like something completely different, something that we might not be ready for—perhaps what David Bowie meant in 1999 when he called the Internet an “ alien lifeform ”).

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Sign in with your Netflix account to watch instantly on the web at netflix.com from your personal computer or on any internet-connected device that offers the Netflix app, including smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, streaming media players and game consoles.nnYou can also download your favorite programs with the iOS, Android, or Windows 10 app.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As the media coverage of the project ramps up, you may have heard of Starlink – SpaceX’s new satellite constellation project. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Elon Musk’s need for speed.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

It can be combined with CSS media queries to select the appropriate image for the width of the screen. Consequently, your CSS styles and media queries have no impact on its choice. The sizes attribute tells the browser the intended display width of the image. Let’s update our code example: <img src="image-280.png".

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

If this is a media site that wants to quickly load content so the user can start reading, you could reasonably say Page A is the best. However, the subscriptions department for that same media site might say Page A is terrible because they want people to be able to click the “buy a subscription” call to action button.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Chatbots Will Rule the Roost Chatbots will also continue to gain their mileage in this internet marketing era. Next-GEN SEO is here In the SEO services landscape, a lot of different changes are reshaping which has immensely influenced the search results in this internet marketing era.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Chatbots Will Rule the Roost Chatbots will also continue to gain their mileage in this internet marketing era. Next-GEN SEO is here In the SEO services landscape, a lot of different changes are reshaping which has immensely influenced the search results in this internet marketing era.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 8, 2019

Responsive image techniques, such as the srcset , sizes , and media HTML attributes, allow different scaled images to be delivered based on the size and resolution of the accessing device. What Are the srcset , sizes , and media Attributes? Both the sizes and media attributes are nearly identical.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Media may not play on some environments. Why Perform Compatibility Testing? Files may not show.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

This can be done through the company’s blog, social media optimization, guest posts, social bookmarking, etc. You may hire an internet marketing company from India that is well aware of the SEO tricks and nuances to achieve your objective by just working on the business website.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

This can be done through the company’s blog, social media optimization, guest posts, social bookmarking, etc. You may hire an internet marketing company from India that is well aware of the SEO tricks and nuances to achieve your objective by just working on the business website.

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