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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. This program is just one example of the many ways Netflix strives to entertain the world.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This strategy reduces the volume needed during retrieval operations.

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Use Distributed Caching to Accelerate Online Web Sites

ScaleOut Software

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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Use Distributed Caching to Accelerate Online Web Sites

ScaleOut Software

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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How to Optimize Digital Experience and Operations with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement!

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Architectural Myopia

ACM Sigarch

In his book “ Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics ”, he cites example after example of how human behavior does not follow economic expectations based on rational behavior, resulting in flawed economic models . I had a professor in grad school who used to joke that all architecture is reinvented every 5 years.