What is encoding and decoding?

Encoding vs. Transcoding: What's The Difference?

Deshansh Garg on Instagram: "Answer: That’s the magic of distributed upload architecture + chunked storage + background processing pipelines 1️⃣ *Chunked Uploads* When you upload a video, YouTube doesn’t send it in one big file. It’s split into *small chunks* (like 4MB each). Even if your connection drops, only the missing chunks are retried — not the entire video. 2️⃣ *Upload Service (Edge Layer)* The chunks go to *Google’s nearest edge server* using *gRPC/HTTP3*, ensuring minimal latency globa

Banias | AI Engineer on Instagram: "Naive chunking destroys context. Here’s how to fix it. 👇 1️⃣ Use Contextual Chunk Headers 👉 Prepend each chunk with document metadata and section headers. A chunk from “Chapter 5: Security” should include that context, not just raw text. 2️⃣ Implement Sliding Windows 👉 Create overlapping chunks (overlap 10-20% of tokens) so context doesn’t break at arbitrary boundaries. This prevents losing information split across chunk borders. 3️⃣ Hierarchical Chunking �