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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

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). and we aim to do it really well.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. As a native offering from AWS, QuickSight comes deeply integrated with AWS data sources such as Amazon Redshift, RDS, and S3.

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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.