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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance. However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Up until AWS and the Cloud, reliable Disaster Recovery had largely remained cost prohibitive for most companies excepting for large enterprises.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. Blocking IP Access.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. I thought a few folks might be interested.

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Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

Scalegrid

However, some challenges may arise when scaling a DBMS, such as improper traffic distribution, inefficient database management, and performance issues. By implementing data abstraction techniques, these challenges can be addressed more effectively.