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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Backend code I wrote and pushed to prod took down Amazon.com for several hours. and hand-rolled C -code. To update code, we flipped a symlink ( a symbolic link is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory ) to swap between the code and HTML files contained in these directories.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

Netflix Tech

The goal is to have the compressed image look as close to the original as possible while reducing the number of bytes required. Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding. Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format.

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Data Engineering Weekly #221

Data Engineering Weekly

Built for the AI era, Components offers compartmentalized code units with proper guardrails that prevent "AI slop" while supporting code generation. If you look at all the BI or UI-based ETL tools, the code is a black box for us, but we validate the outcome generated by the black-box.

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

Netflix Tech

Next I started reading the Ninja source code. I wanted to find the precise code that delivers the audio data. I recognized a lot, but I started to lose the plot in the playback code and I needed help. You can see three distinct behaviors in this chart: The two, tall spiky parts where the data rate reaches 500 bytes/ms.

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Understanding Literals in Python: A Beginner’s Guide

Edureka

Literals in Python are the direct representations of fixed values in your code. Literals in Python are pieces of data that are saved in the source code so that your software can work properly. Literals in Python are fixed values that are written straight into the code. What Are Literals in Python?

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Google BigQuery: A Game-Changing Data Warehousing Solution

ProjectPro

Numeric data consists of four sub-types: Integer type (INT64) Numeric type (NUMERIC DECIMAL) Bignumeric type (BIGNUMERIC BIGDECIMAL) Floating point type (FLOAT64) BYTES Although they work with raw bytes rather than Unicode characters, BYTES also represent variable-length data. Deploy the model and monitor its performance.

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20+ Image Processing Projects Ideas in Python with Source Code

ProjectPro

Image Processing Projects Ideas in Python with Source Code for Hands-on Practice to develop your computer vision skills as a Machine Learning Engineer. ” Despite the advantages images have over text data, there is no denying the complexities that the extra bytes they eat up can bring. imread('gray.png', cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)

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