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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure.

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Database as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Building a Rule-Based Platform to Manage Netflix Membership SKUs at Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. SKUDB: SKU catalog data was migrated from the metadata configuration files to a relational database. The changes are administered by the regular git pull request flow and guarded by the validation infrastructure. Business Rules?—?SKURules:

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Because of this flexibility, businesses may choose the infrastructure that best meets their needs.

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Beyond REST

The Netflix TechBlog

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. Graphile supports smart comments allowing control of various features by tagging database tables, views, columns, and types with specifically formatted PostgreSQL comments.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

This means we need to distinguish between availability of SKUs and eligibility for SKUs. You can think of eligibility as something that is applied at the user level, while availability is at the country level. The SKU Platform contains the global set of SKUs and as a result, is said to control the availability of SKUs.