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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

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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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. 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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Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and This requires an asset storage solution. Asset Storage We refer to asset storage and management simply as asset management. We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g.,

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

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.