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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. His first edition in 2015 was foundational, and he updated it in 2021 with a second edition.

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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 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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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps. html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps. html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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