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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. This is only one of many microservices that make up the Prime Video application. Finally, what were they building?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

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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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. More after jump!

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Accelerating Data: Faster and More Scalable ElastiCache for Redis

All Things Distributed

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. ElastiCache for Redis Multi-AZ capability is built to handle any failover case for Redis Cluster with robustness and efficiency. Building upon Redis.