Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure , DigitalOcean. Are you a startup that has free AWS or Azure hosting credits you’d like to use for your database hosting? Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations. Below is a broad technical overview of how to go from an AWS instance to a Netflix Workstation. Instead, we created a service to take the most popular configurations and cache them. Now that you know why, here is how we did it.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Since you now have lots of choices to address your high performance database needs, I decided to write this blog to help you select the most appropriate services for your workload using lessons I have learnt by scaling the infrastructure for Amazon.com.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. S3 on AWS). From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

This data would be collated and authored in a Web Content Management System (WCMS) by a content editor. Infrastructure Integration. We had marketers from a Traditional CMS background who resisted the idea of delving into multiple systems and services when using a headless CMS. Look out for: Caching of images and content via CDN.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Without infrastructure-level support, every team ends up building their own point solution to varying degrees of success. Dataset propagation At Netflix we use an in-house dataset pub/sub system called Gutenberg. An important point to note is that Gutenberg is not designed as an eventing system?—?it

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further. Their primary role is to store (or “cache”) copies of web content — like HTML pages, JavaScript files, and multimedia content — and deliver it to users based on their geographic location.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes.

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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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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

caching (Memcached etc.), Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2]. By their nature, they can only rely on the lowest common denominator of participating systems. providing advanced search capabilities (ElasticSearch etc.),

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

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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. Then, you need to set up a bucket and IAM role on AWS, which is outside the scope of this article, but you can see instructions for here. Compression and Transcoding.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Edge caching. Infrastructure Optimization. Nginx for disk based caching.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. The system is more robust. We have also made other enhancements along the way.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. IoT tracking systems. This architecture runs on cloud technology, and developers can focus on the code instead of the scaling, maintenance, and infrastructure facilities. Conducted cars & driverless vehicles.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

However, they do sound reasonable when we deal with the unpredictable nature of the network and hardware, including everything from congested networks to slowly developing infrastructure, to data caps , proxy browsers, save-data mode and sneaky roaming charges. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This will require you to update your image optimization strategy and adopt a tool called ImageKit , but it shouldn’t take much work from you to get this new system in place. It all took place within their legacy infrastructure. The Necessity Of An Image Optimization Strategy For Mobile. Use Faster-loading Image Formats. Add a CDN.

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