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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. I suspect at some point there'll be more jobs supporting the AWS cloud than there will be supporting Linux.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. the background image shown above).