Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

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. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AWS EKS for Integration and Production. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. When focusing on the LanguageController service we learn that it’s currently deployed in three pods across three EKS nodes across two AWS Availability Zones (AZ). NGINX as an API Gateway. REDIS for caching.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Based on what Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, presented at re:Invent 2018, it seems that the majority is moving their workloads to AWS: These stats tell us that there are a lot of Microsoft related workloads in the public cloud that can be optimized! Setup the Dynatrace AWS CloudWatch Integration. Step #1: Install Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At its heart it uses Istio (for traffic control) and Knative (for event driven tool orchestration) and stores all configuration in Git – following the GitOps approach. Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline …. Beyond basic metrics: Detecting Architectural Regressions. It takes your artifacts (e.g:

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. Solving custom API observability with OpenTelemetry Because the bank group needed complete coverage for all API traffic, it wanted to standardize tracing on all API calls.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

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 this architecture, service to service communication no longer goes through the single point of failure of a load balancer.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. They also need a way to track all the services running on their distributed architectures, from multicloud environments to the edge. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Service Segmentation: The ease of the cloud deployments has led to the organic growth of multiple AWS accounts, deployment practices, interconnection practices, etc. VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross-data-center traffic. We also recently announced our partnership with AWS to provide observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics from AWS.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The backend is a single one where the “passive” PMM instance (the one that is a pure “read replica”) is marked as “backup” so that traffic is only routed there in case the primary fails the health check. For simplicity, the PMM instances are configured to listen to the 80 port (http) on the private IPs.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades. There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. queries/sec.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Inconsistent performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In order to achieve this level of availability, we leverage an N+1 architecture where we treat Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions as fault domains, allowing us to withstand single region failures. So, if we evacuate South American traffic to North America, demand for CE and Android DRM won’t grow uniformly.

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Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 190

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Like ScaleGrid’s offerings for multi-cloud architecture compatibility, its solutions are well-suited for use within a single cloud provider or a hybrid cloud setup as well. Firstly, let’s take a look at Spotify’s implementation of the multi-cloud approach before exploring Netflix’s adoption of a hybrid cloud architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

We also highlight interesting broader events such as regional traffic evacuations and nearby deployments , information that is vital to understanding health holistically. It usually has dependencies, talks to other services, and lives in different AWS regions. Regional traffic evacuations. Especially during an incident.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. With Cloud, we are leveraging the largest cloud providers’ locations, including AWS, Azure, Alibaba and Google coming very soon. Cloud effectively solves each of these major issues.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The rapidly evolving digital landscape is one important factor in the acceleration of such transformations – microservices architectures, service mesh, Kubernetes, Functions as a Service (FaaS), and other technologies now enable teams to innovate much faster. New cloud-native technologies make observability more important than ever….

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. and products like AWS Fargate have made this distinction murkier still. Finally in this first overall section it was good to be able to talk about AWS SAM and SAR?—?“Serverless AWS API Gateway , and its associated tooling, has got much, much better.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI algorithms embedded in cloud architecture automate repetitive processes, streamlining workloads and reducing the chance of human error. With a multi-cloud architecture, Scalegrid offers the flexibility and competitive edge necessary for AI applications in the rapidly evolving tech environment.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

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Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes? A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

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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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In Netflix the microservice architecture is widely adopted and each microservice typically handles only one type of data. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. High availability, via standby instances across AWS Availability Zones.

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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. We also utilize Kafka to process these assets asynchronously without impacting our real time traffic.

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Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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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.” And you already see that in machine learning, where there’s a really hot field in terms of deep neural nets and other implementations.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

The term "synthetic" is used because it does not rely on traffic generated by real clients and end-users. Canary AWS refers to these synthetic monitors as "canaries" (like "canary in the coal mine"). Synthetic monitoring offers end-to-end visibility across complex architectures and third-party integrations.

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Monitoring Testing Artificial Intelligence Traffic 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. Comments ().

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