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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Just one problem: when you get a new codec, you need new hardware.

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Virtually all modern software and applications built today are distributed systems of some sort, says Sam Newman , director at Sam Newman & Associates and author of Building Microservices. Even a monolithic application talking to a database is a distributed system, he says, “just a very simple one.”. Reliability.