The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With the exponential rise of cloud technologies and their indisputable benefits such as lower total cost of ownership, accelerated release cycles, and massed scalability, it’s no wonder organizations clamor to migrate workloads to the cloud and realize these gains.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

What does strong enterprise cloud security entail, and how can you achieve it? With the prevalence of cyber threats and regulatory pressures, safeguarding your enterprise’s cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Finally, provisioning our infrastructure itself is also becoming an increasingly complex task, so our data teams contribute to tools for diagnosis and automation of our cloud capacity management.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Overseeing cloud spend and IT resource allocation has always been a priority for CIOs. Yet, in 2023, 82% of cloud decision makers reported that managing cloud spend was their top challenge, according to one source. Teams provision and purchase many cloud services that end up underused or completely unused.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

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InfoQ

MAY 14, 2024

By combining smart and meaningful choices for each of these three components, we can build massively scalable, SLO-compliant stateful services at Netflix. Building reliable stateful services at scale isn’t a matter of building reliability into the servers, the clients, or the APIs in isolation. By Joseph Lynch

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InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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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

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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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security? Proving systems correct. It's almost as if he's a FLoC guy working at AWS rather than an AWS guy giving a FLoC talk.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest encryption as well as AWS IAM integration. Why should you care about AWS IAM integration? With all the systems users need to access daily, password management becomes a more pressing issue. 4 was released just a few days ago?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. IP addresses within the cloud can move from one EC2 instance or Titus container to another over time.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 27 billion : CapEx invested by leading cloud vendors in first quarter of 2018; $40 billion : App store revenue in 10 years; $57.5

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. A satellite image of phytoplankton populations or algae blooms in the Baltic Sea. Do you like this sort of Stuff? It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. ” What does a DevOps platform engineer do? .”

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The largest structure ever found in the early universe.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But every organization I talked with, that is engaged in a k8s project, told me that in order for them to truly leverage k8s as a cloud native platform you need ALL of the following “ Monitoring as a Self-Service Capabilities ” (MaaSS) which aren’t covered by any of the open source or platform offerings: K8s cluster and pod health monitoring.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

When AWS launched, it changed how developers thought about IT services: What used to take weeks or months of purchasing and provisioning turned into minutes with Amazon EC2. Our answer is a new compute service called AWS Lambda. You can go from code to service in three clicks and then let AWS Lambda take care of the rest.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. They'll love you even more. More quotes.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. coryodaniel : Rewrote an #AWS APIGateway & #lambda service that was costing us about $16000 / month in #elixir. They'll love you even more.

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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! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

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High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use. Try for free!

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use. Try for free!

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use. Try for free!

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High Scalability

JANUARY 25, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use. Try for free!

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Education AWS Scalability Java 100

High Scalability

JANUARY 5, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Chaos engineering answers this need so organizations can deliver robust, resilient cloud-native applications that can stand up under any conditions.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 23, 2021

Cloud testing is expected to grow to USD 11 Billion by 2023 , and we are talking about only cloud testing here, not cloud computing. Complex testing scenarios such as cross-browser testing, parallel testing, can be made more effective when done on the cloud. Time is money and cloud-based testing saves it.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. For more details on AWS in Japan see [link].

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High Scalability

MARCH 18, 2021

If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

One of our guiding principles at AWS is to listen closely to our customers and the feedback that I am getting about our training and certification program is very positive. Many architects and engineers know the Cloud is the future of development and IT and the are gearing up to be as succesful as possible in this new normal.

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