Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally!

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Using AI for Enhanced Cloud Operations The integration of AI in cloud computing is enhancing operational efficiency in several ways.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

are stored in secure storage layers. Amsterdam is built on top of three storage layers. Elasticsearch recommends each shard to be under 65GB (AWS recommends them to be under 50GB), so we could create time based indices where each index holds somewhere between 16–20GB of data, giving some buffer for data growth.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. Amazon Aurora has become the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS and frequently is the target of migration from on-premise proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps. File System.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps. File System.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deploy applications quickly and efficiently is crucial for organizations. For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources."

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

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! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started

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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. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. This consistent performance is a big part of why the Snapchat Stories feature , which includes Snapchat's largest storage write workload, moved to DynamoDB. The opposite is true. Take Expedia, for example.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. But here's the catch: if the provider lacks certain features, you're handcuffed.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

By leveraging the power of mobile technology, UberEats provides a seamless and efficient way for users to order their favorite meals from a wide range of eateries. UberEats also excels in providing a reliable and efficient delivery service. Choose a robust technology stack that can handle high traffic and accommodate future growth.

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Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

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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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Serverless Computing – AWS Lambda – Amazon Web Services.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The underlying data is available to the cloud vendors themselves, so they would need to supply a one minute, per instance, energy use value as an AWS CloudWatch metric or equivalent for other cloud providers. There’s a network traffic driven allocation of the energy use of the network switches that connect computers.

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Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

This is true for CPU, network, memory and storage, and also for bare metal, virtual machines, containers, processes, functions and threads. For efficiency it is common to co-locate a monitoring system with the infrastructure, in the same datacenter or cloud region, but that sets up common dependencies that could cause both to fail together.

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Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

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Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. But there's another factor at play: jobs are also migrating from both Solaris and Linux to cloud jobs instead, specifically AWS. It's the official profiler.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Image source ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Image source ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145