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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100
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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack. Their “ State of Open Source Security Report, 2020 ” found that the most common vulnerabilities are cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (18%), followed by malicious packages (13%).

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal. Wednesday?—?December

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Hence, downstream consumers receive change events as they occur on a source.

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Hence, downstream consumers have confidence to receive change events as they occur on a source.

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