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Gossip Protocol in Social Media Networks: Instagram and Beyond

DZone

This article will discuss the gossip protocol in detail, followed by its potential implementation in social media networks, including Instagram. Gossip Protocol The gossip protocol is based on an epidemic algorithm that uses randomized communication to propagate information among nodes in a network.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Split Your Media Types. Employ Critical CSS. The practical upshot of this is that the browser will….

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Transform data into insights with Dynatrace Dashboards and Notebooks

Dynatrace

Accelerate data exploration with seamless integration between apps In developing the new Dynatrace experience, our goal was to integrate apps seamlessly by sharing the context when navigating between them (known as “intent”), much like sharing a photo from your smartphone to social media.

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How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…

The Netflix TechBlog

How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks using TLS 1.3 We want playback to start instantly and to never stop unexpectedly in any network environment. Therefore, it requires more messages to perform a handshake and two network round trips. improvement in media rebuffers.

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Challenges and Solutions in Developing Real-Time Messaging Systems

DZone

Social media networks, service marketplaces, and online shops all rely heavily on real-time messaging. Instant communication is essential for platforms like TaskRabbit, Thumbtack, and a multitude of others. Yet, building a real-time messaging system is anything but simple.