High Scalability

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. heipei : It's Friday, I've been in a jumpsuit doing manual labor all day (crazy, I know) and weighing my options between passing out on the couch over some Youtube videos, reading the Friday @highscal blog post or writing code.

Internet 163

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 163

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. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Atlassian Jira. Kubernetes.

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 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. kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times.

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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.

Internet 123

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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 3, 2018

It was the very first time (1968) the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time video conferencing. Use Multi-AZ deployments for High Availability and Read Replica for read scalability. — Doug Engelbart ( Valley of Genius ). Most importantly? million (US $3.6

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing AWS Marketplace. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace , an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three 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 sub-millisecond latency. Fast data can have a transformational impact on data-driven development that is underlying a lot of the interesting things happening in the Cloud today.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both For more details, read this page about Metaflow’s integration with AWS.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. We needed scalability testing and performance testing as well.

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

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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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Java Scalability 115

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both For more details, read this page about Metaflow’s integration with AWS.

Open Source 134

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments ().

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AWS Games Internet Internet 98

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. 300% : AWS IoT growth per year; 74% : mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4 trillion : new record for calculating digits of pi (121 days); 112Gbps : Intel's SerDes; 100M : image and video dataset; 1.5

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? One factor in this growth is the presence of image, audio and video archives, which are often archived in their original un-edited form. on-premise systems and AWS regions to ensure sufficient transmission capacity.

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder. While I was returning from an exciting time in New Orleans watching the Super Bowl, AWS launched a very cool, brand new service: Amazon Elastic Transcoder. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AWS Media Scalability Storage 102

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Amazon’s need for a hassle-free, scalable Titan solution is not unique. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Ensure scalability and performance optimization: As your clone app gains popularity and attracts more users, scalability and performance optimization become crucial. Stay tuned for insights on building a robust and scalable UberEats clone app. These frameworks offer scalability, performance, and ease of development.

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Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

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. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Media Files.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. Comments ().

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Games Scalability AWS Database 142

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 13, 2013

This year as I hosted AWS Summits in 12 different cities around the world, I met thousands of developers who are building powerful new applications for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, all running mobile cloud backends on AWS. Announcing Amazon SNS with Mobile Push. per million push notifications ($0.50

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Mobile Development AWS Games 108

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

It simplifies the job by managing multiple browser environments, allowing you to use the cloud infrastructure for running parallel browser sessions on multiple platforms and devices. All of these are available on the cloud and can be accessible on the go. You can also set the screen resolutions. In-Sprint Compatibility Test Automation.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Testing DevOps Mobile 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. However, as use of the cloud as grown, so have the file sizes customers want to store in Amazon S3 as objects. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Going beyond Key-Value.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As Dan Rayburn wrote on his Business of Video blog, "Amazon will be in the drivers seat to own the market for small and medium sized content owners who need simple delivery at a great price.". Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

Media 60

Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Video Transcoding. Migration to cloud. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. In this case, what’s needed from a private cloud is lots of lightweight copies of what a production environment looks like, with heavy sharing of physical hardware. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. The site will load in a snap. Large preview ).

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Are videos properly optimized? Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Are videos properly optimized?

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