Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, both real and virtual. In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1 Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow.

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. To make use of the services in this region, customers will use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to organize their AWS resources.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 107

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

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 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015! First, we’ve grown the number of different IPC clients.

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