All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. If you want a quick introduction on how to get started with mixing Spot Instances with On-Demand Instances in an Amazon EMR cluster, watch this Getting Started Video. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Scalability 112

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

One factor in this growth is the presence of image, audio and video archives, which are often archived in their original un-edited form. In Amazon Glacier data is stored as archives, which are uploaded to Glacier and organized in vaults, which customers can control access to using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service.

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform. Connecting edge services in the cloud (for example, AWS for the Edge ).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a time when modern microservices are easier to deploy, GCF, like its counterparts AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , gives development teams an agility boost for delivering value to their customers quickly with low overhead costs. These functions can connect with supported cloud databases, such as Cloud SQL and Bigtable.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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. More after jump!

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. 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.

Scalability 131

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 131

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. But they may back off on AI development.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 109

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. Alok Pathak : While both (Multi-AZ and Read replica) maintain a copy of database but they are different in nature. — Doug Engelbart ( Valley of Genius ).

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are various implementations–from the industrial-grade AWS SageMaker Autopilot and Google Cloud Vertex AI , to offerings from smaller players–but, in a nutshell, some developers spotted that same for() loop and built a slick UI on top. This person is comfortable talking to databases to pull data, then calling Pandas to transform it.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

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. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Comments (). In their own words: â??With s what they had to say: â??DynamoDB

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Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Definitions.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

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. DynamoDB stores information as database tables, which are collections of individual items.

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Games Scalability Database Retail 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. Layout Shifts From Dynamic And Static Content We have been using dynamic content serving, where each request reaches our back-end server and triggers processes like database retrievals and page renderings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace is proud to partner with AWS to support AWS Lambda functions powered by x86-based processors and Graviton2 Arm-based processors announced earlier this year. According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. Dynatrace Data explorer.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Metrics 218

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All postings. Recent Entries.

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 82

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

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. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

Media 61

Media AWS Storage Big Data 61

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

2 However, you don’t need to know how Transformers work to use large language models effectively, any more than you need to know how a database works to use a database. The relevant section starts at 20:40 of this video. In that sense, “how it works” is the least important question to ask. O’Reilly, 2022).

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Google Open Source Programming Code 105

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. We have one file?

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Database management: Choose a database management system that can handle large amounts of data and ensure efficient retrieval and storage. Cloud infrastructure and hosting: Consider using cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for hosting and scaling your UberEats clone.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

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. Video Transcoding. Chokepoint : Even sharded Berkeley DB was choking under the stress and there was a database crash with recovery taking hours, it had to be replaced. Permissions.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52