The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” Plus there was all of the infrastructure to push data into the cluster in the first place. Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g.,

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Previously, I wrote about Amazon QuickSight , a new service targeted at business users that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources quickly, easily, and at a low cost. QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We hear a lot from Google and Microsoft about their cloud platforms, but not quite so much from the other key industry players. Autoscaling tiered cloud storage in Anna. This VLDB’19 paper describes “ how we extended a distributed key-value store called Anna into an autoscaling, multi-tier service for the cloud.”

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. By knowing this, Kärcher can generate new top-line revenue in the form of subscription models for its analysis portal. More than mere support.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. This lead to the birth of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which was focused on providing a very fine grained parallel model, with processing organized in multiple stages, where the data would flow through. Expanding the Cloud â??

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12