Getting to understand the MKV based record format used by KVS High Level View AWS documentation provides the following high level view of a typical Kinesis video stream based system. A producer, a video camera, cell phone or other, similar device, produces streaming audio/visual data. …

Making sense of the latency metrics from KVS Overview Kinesis Video Streams are used to stream audio and video data from a producer to a consumer. The producer might be a video camera or even a voice call. Data Streams from the producer into KVS. Once in KVS, the data is…

Rate Matching How do I estimate the number of consumers given a number of producers? A standard problem when building out a system is estimating the number of consumers needed to meet or exceed the demand or load generated by a set of producers. The easiest approach to tackle this problem is…

Clausius wrote about the equivalence of two different types of transformations, each involving heat and work. He took as an assumption that work could be converted to heat and vice-versa, that heat could be converted to work. Specifically, he equated a process that converts heat to work with a separate…

Carnot Cycle demonstrates the equality of the transformations In a prior blog, it was established how Clausius defined an equivalent set of transformations across a cycle. The equivalence is based on the supposition that each transformation is equal to dQ/dT; and that certain transformation types have the same impact. Specifically…

does information increase as the number of physical objects that contain or reflect that information increases? For clarity, An extensive property is a property of matter that changes as the amount of matter changes. …

A fresh look at Clausius’ transformations in terms of gravitational potential energy Clausius defines two transformations: transformation of heat from a high temperature to a low temperature conversion of heat to work and vice-versa But what do these transformations actually mean? What do they represent? Why is there a transformation…

What makes a process reversible? The general rule of thumb is that a process is reversible if the system can be moved from its current state back to its original state without the loss of energy due to friction or other non-conserved forces. Let’s look at the fully reversible case…

Musings on Entropy — Anomalous Entropies There are three cases of interest. First, there is the case of entropy of mixing. This case encapsulates many of the key issues associated with entropy but also has a standard interpretation. The standard interpretation glosses over these issues. Both will be investigated. Second…