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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. The ability to run in a degraded but available state during an outage is still a marked improvement over completely stopping traffic flow.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” And it (wisely) stuck to implementations of industry-standard algorithms.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.

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Our Once and Future Wisdom: Re-acquiring Lost Institutional Knowledge

The Agile Manager

Their existing system was a combination of a custom AS/400 based RPG system (that had started life on a System/34), a fat client Visual Basic application, and thin-client Java tools, all of which required manual (operator) steps for data integration with one another.