Using Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times – The New York Times

Using Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times Video publishing at The Times is growingFor the past 10 years, the video publishing lifecycle at The New York Times has relied on vendors and in-house hardware solutions. With our growing investment in video journalism over the past couple of years, we’ve found…

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Using Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times – The New York Times

Video publishing at The Times is growing For the past 10 years, the video publishing lifecycle at The New York Times has relied on vendors and in-house hardware solutions. With our growing investment in video journalism over the past couple of years, we’ve found ourselves producing more video content every month, along with supporting new…

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BDSM JS Server Mocks

  28 Sep 2016 on javascript | web Introducing BDSM (Based on a true story) We had a problem The frontend team was way way (way) ahead of the server team. More than half the APIs we needed weren’t done and the delays kept piling on. And this wasn’t new either, as the backend teams…

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How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016

Edit: Thanks for pointing typos and mistakes, I’ll update the article as noted. Discussion in HackerNews and Reddit. The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can read the original here. This piece is just an opinion, and like any JavaScript framework, it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. No JavaScript frameworks were created…

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Announcing the Addition of PressForward Data to the WP API with PressForward 4.1 | PressForward

Today the PressForward team is pleased to announce the release of PressForward 4.1, an update to our WordPress plugin that enables the aggregation of RSS / ATOM feeds and the curation of web publications. Version 4.1 of PressForward serves as the first step toward the release of a complete PressForward Application Programming Interface (API). The…

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Washington Post Builds Its Own Ad Tech To Speed Up Mobile | AdExchanger

Although The Washington Post partners with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP, which help speed mobile load times, it’s also striking out on its own.Over a two-month period, a team of Post engineers cobbled together a proprietary tech solution called Zeus that sped mobile page-load times by 75%. Viewability improved by 20% in current tests…

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Page views of candidate coverage expected to increase as Election Day approaches | Talking New Media | The digital publishing website

Guest column: Kemper Smith of the audience insights company Parse.ly says the company expects that given the contentious campaign and the limited opportunities for the candidates to meet face-to-face, one can expect the debates to generate web traffic peaks that rival those in the primary and conventions T/.dropcaphe nominees for President of the United States…

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