The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g., Other Relevant Readings More infrastructure-related post from the Netflix Tech Blog How Netflix Works?

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

While AWS EBS snapshots were mentioned the most, the likes of persistent disk snapshots on GCP, Azure-managed disk snapshots, or local storage, as well as k8s snapshot capabilities, were also playing a crucial part in the backup strategies. Feedback is also a contribution Contribution is not only code.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. 1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 1072-aws (xxx) 12/19/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 12.25

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Case Studies: Enhanced Security with ScaleGrid Examples and real-world scenarios showcase the effectiveness of ScaleGrid’s offerings in enhancing security for enterprise cloud environments. A case in point is OpenAQ, which successfully deployed a robust PostgreSQL solution through ScaleGrid’s ‘Bring Your Own Cloud’ feature on AWS.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon Cloudfront You can add server-timing headers via opt-in via the AWS Console as mentioned in this post. Recent server timing case studies It's great to see server timing starting to get more use in the wild. Another option would be using EdgeWorkers to add the headers to the request, similar to the example shown next.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

We have already seen customers successfully run HPC workloads, Hadoop-based jobs (as shown in the BackType case study), and testing simulations (as shown in the BrowserMob case study) on Spot. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Contact Info.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

This is a rough post to share this old but good case study of using these tools, and to help justify their further development. 1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 1072-aws (xxx) 12/19/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 12.25

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. As our entire infrastructure is already hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) , choosing Amazon AWS CloudFront as our CDN solution was an immediate and obvious choice. Here’s a breakdown of the moving pieces.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Of course, Azure and AWS use different methodologies to calculate their carbon footprint, which are currently based on monthly averages of the energy they purchase (using the market method, rather than what they use via the location method).

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Given that Amazon’s AWS Lambda functions are only five years old this November, anyone with more than three years of experience is a very early adopter. Of those respondents whose organizations have adopted serverless, more than 50% made the jump one to three years ago, and 15% adopted serverless more than three years ago.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 9, 2019

” A case study: In our study, we found the single sign-on part of a major Chinese website network to be susceptible to both a persistent and a re?ected . “ Since our crawlers neither log in nor try to cover all available code paths, the number of sites susceptible to such Client-Side XSS flaws is likely higher.”

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This article is for anyone struggling with testing cloud services locally, and specifically for people wanting to locally test an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS. The last Serverless API project we worked on stored all the data in JSON files hosted on AWS S3 buckets. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Study common complaints coming into customer service and see how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems. How to get there?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. It’s a powerful framework that can solve even the most complex use cases, gearing it more towards bespoke solutions for enterprise problems rather than much smaller informational sites. For the more complex enterprise use cases, we have fewer examples.

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