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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Scalability. PostgreSQL offers free scalability, and can scale up to millions of transactions per seconds. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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Evolving Container Security With Linux User Namespaces

The Netflix TechBlog

Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. Today, their time-to-market is close to zero.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region

All Things Distributed

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. The Ohio Region launches with three AZs so that customers can create high-availability environments and architect for fault tolerance and scalability.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. TPU: Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is Google’s specialized hardware for neural network.

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The Show Must Go On: Securing Netflix Studios At Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Written by Jose Fernandez , Arthur Gonigberg , Julia Knecht , and Patrick Thomas In 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every conversation.

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