The Symphonia

JANUARY 21, 2019

we help people create a Continuous Deployment pipeline before they start getting into the nitty-gritty of Serverless Architecture. Since we use so many AWS services in our work, it makes sense that we also consider AWS tools for CI/CD. What are the AWS Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. AWS serverless offerings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

When I think about cloud-native architectures, I think about disaggregation (enabling each resource type to scale independently), fine-grained units of resource allocation (enabling rapid response to changing workload demands, i.e. elasticity), and isolation (keeping tenants apart). joins) during query processing.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web — Tim Perry gets into two brand new (proposed) caching headers: Cache-Status and Targetted Cache-Control. ” Feels like good stuff where web standards can come in and fix up a gnarly situation. I all depends on what slice of the web you’re looking at.

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Performance Cache Media Games 61

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

caching (Memcached etc.), In Netflix the microservice architecture is widely adopted and each microservice typically handles only one type of data. High availability, via standby instances across AWS Availability Zones. We currently support MySQL and Postgres, including when deployed in AWS RDS and its Aurora flavor.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. How do I know that my cache is up to date?

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It featured three relevant talks from LinkedIn, Netflix and Facebook, and a platform architecture overview talk from first time participant Dropbox. In particular, he talked about the misattribution potential in a complex microservice architecture where often intermediary results are cached.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. Some fundamentals on Naming. No lock-in. Contact Info.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It featured three relevant talks from LinkedIn, Netflix and Facebook, and a platform architecture overview talk from first time participant Dropbox. In particular, he talked about the misattribution potential in a complex microservice architecture where often intermediary results are cached.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. Once you understand that it’s all about caching renders and then getting the right cached render for each request, everything will click into place. And now we even pay for it!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

These applications are built on a microservices architecture, and the Asset Management Platform provides asset management to those dozens of services for various asset types. To avoid the ES query for the list of indices for every indexing request, we keep the list of indices in a distributed cache.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

We recognize the potential benefits of serving static content, which involves delivering pre-generated HTML files like you would see in a Jamstack architecture. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. This is simply not possible with conventional architectures. Data management.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

By Ammar Khaku Introduction In a microservice architecture such as Netflix’s, propagating datasets from a single source to multiple downstream destinations can be challenging. This post is a high level overview of the design and architecture of Gutenberg. A publisher publishes to a topic and consumers consume from a topic.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Microservices architecture. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. Monolithic architecture takes a back seat with headless CMSes. With this microservices architecture, everything you got from your Traditional CMS does not come out of the tin.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. Query String based Caching: the ability to include query string parameters as part of the objects cache key. URL based configuration: the ability to configure cache behaviors based on URL path patterns. Selecting the best AWS region for Origin Fetch. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Think of a situation where you're asked to build a service in AWS that distributes static content to your users. Your first option is to use its native CDN - Amazon CloudFront, as it seamlessly integrates with all of your other AWS Services that you're using to build your service.‍For What is vendor lock-in?‍Think

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Small projects benefit from simple architecture. Additionally, you will need to set up credential access to your AWS bucket. Client-Side Caching.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Think of a situation where you're asked to build a service in AWS that distributes static content to your users. CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. What is vendor lock-in?‍Think

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. This way, log event processing can resume event-by-event afterwards, eventually discovering the watermarks, without ever needing to cache log event entries. DBLog High Level Architecture. Supporting Relational Databases.

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