Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. Netflix pioneered chaos engineering out of necessity.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed.

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today. All postings.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. has given me much fulfilment and a long list of truly awful bugs to recount. . /* Restricted version used during very early boot */. Recent work. void __init early_fixup_exception ( struct pt_regs * regs , int trapnr ). {.

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C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses.

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Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. A lot of people got it and learned to love SMF.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. the background image shown above). Motivation At Netflix we do one thing?—?entertainment?—?and

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Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165