article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

Let them dogfood the software patch. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". We achieve 5.5

Internet 134
article thumbnail

Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

And we own the data pipelines that power everything from executive-oriented dashboards to the personalization systems that help connect each Netflix member with content that will spark joy for them. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001.

Education 238
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

billion : venture investment first half of 2018; 1 billion : Utah voting system per day hack attempts; 67% : did not deploy a serverless app last year; $1.8 Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Hossein Fateh : The largest deal of 2001 was 3.5 Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program.

Internet 135
article thumbnail

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g. We adopted the following mission statement to guide our investments: “Provide a complete and accurate data lineage system enabling decision-makers to win moments of truth.”

article thumbnail

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Several of the principles from this paper have made it into systems I have since built. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

article thumbnail

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

article thumbnail

Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

HubSpot, a marketing and sales software leader, uses a chatbot called GrowthBot to help marketers and sales personnel be more productive by providing access to relevant data and services. TTS systems have continuously evolved through the last few decades and are nowadays capable of delivering a fairly natural-sounding speech.

AWS 165