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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. When you are exploring how to construct something, building a prototype in a few days or weeks is a good approach.

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Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture

InfoQ

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

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Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. This helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded.

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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. In this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer.

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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