Instagram Saved 90% of Computing Power and Improved Video Quality

Blogspam for https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/inst... (2022).

The title is misleading enough that it suggests the author didn't really understand the article they were summarizing (or had an AI summarize?). This isn't a >90% reduction in the CPU used for transcoding in general, but just for a subset. Those freed up resources were then used for more advanced codecs.

The single declarative sentence per paragraph, seemingly "If I sound like a TED talk I'll be as insightful as some of them!" is supremely obnoxious too... Or is it the impact of people using Twitter as place for long-form content?

Who the frakk subscribes to your newsletter, richbray? Other tech bros?

Original article:

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/inst...

I'm a huge fan of Ryan Peterman. I appreciated his actionable advice on his personal blog (developing.dev) as someone at the start of my career.

> On YouTube the average bitrate for a 1080 video is 8Mbps which is 1Mb of transmitted data every second.

1Mb -> 1MB

Good spot. Just updated the article :)

I am noob in video streaming, so this is quite good insight into how much work goes into it