The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

This has led to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to detect issues in hardware or bugs in recently rolled out data platform software. Some examples where we are able to auto-remediate are: If Streaming Pensive finds that one or more Flink Task Managers are going out of memory, it can redeploy the Flink cluster with more Task Managers.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). As GS2 relies on AWS EC2 Auto Scaling to target-track CPU utilization, we thought we just had to redeploy the service on the larger instance type and wait for the ASG (Auto Scaling Group) to settle on the CPU target. Thread 0’s cache in this example.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 25, 2015

The easiest way to build a skill for Alexa is to use AWS Lambda , an innovative compute service that runs a developer’s code in response to triggers and automatically manages the compute resources in the AWS Cloud, so there is no need for a developer to provision or continuously run servers. You do not need an SSL certificate.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

. “The team did a two-part attack on that, where we rapidly added more physical infrastructure, but also expanded the Citrix environment into all five CSP regions that we had available to us in the government clouds from Azure and AWS,” Catanoso explains. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

Thanks to Dynatrace AIOps this problem was detected automatically and routed to a remediation action Stephan implemented using AWS Lambda. Stephan did a great job in his demo, where he simulated a log spam of an application leading to a full disk which subsequently would impact other applications running on the same infrastructure.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. The top certification was for AWS (3.9%

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Chaos engineers ask why.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS.

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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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cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Whether you choose Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, you cannot easily switch to another. Azure Functions don't have this restriction, but on AWS Lambda, functions are not allowed to run for longer than 5 minutes.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For example, a site reliability engineer may be involved with help desk tickets, on-call incidents, manual tasks, etc. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do? What are Some Common SRE Responsibilities?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. For example, in the case of a web application, it could be the time it takes after a user hits the submission button on form. The time it takes between an action and a response is latency.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In today's era of global digitalization there are many examples that show that IT does matter. These examples underline that the purpose of software today is not solely to support business processes, but that software solutions have broadly become an essential element in multiple business areas. More than mere support.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Further computationally intensive, highly parallel workloads have found their way to Amazon EC2 as businesses have explored using HPC types of algorithms for other application categories, for example to to process very large unstructured data sets for Business Intelligence applications. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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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. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed. By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.),

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 For example, if we want to evaluate moving our OLTP applications from MySQL 8.0.27 on identical hardware, with identical settings, but at different load levels. and 8.0.32

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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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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, workflows from both public and private cloud resources can support an application. They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. After deployment, IT teams can also optimize the software and supporting hardware to ensure high performance.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware. Serverless container services. The benefits of CaaS for enterprises of all sizes.

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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

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is the turn-key solution for organizations that want to enjoy all the conveniences of a SaaS solution—for example, ease-of-use, no operational overhead, and fast release cycles—while keeping their data on-premise to comply with regulatory requirements. Dynatrace Managed now available on the Google Cloud Platform.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Examples of traditional natural monopolies are dams, railroads, power plants, water supply, and sewer services. For example, AWS created Nitro. Would Nitro have been invented if AWS was restricted to being a platform provider?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. Below is a broad technical overview of how to go from an AWS instance to a Netflix Workstation. This salt formula example is the equivalent of running a “yum install sis-lighting-10_1” in the terminal.

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Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency. ASPLOS’19.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. For example: Lack of end-to-end observability. billion in 2020 to $4.1 What is log analytics?

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 202

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. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. DynamoDB Streams.

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Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments. over Greenplum 5.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Those applications will be built soon; tldraw is a very early example of what they might be.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In this post, I show some of the reasons why that's true, using the Amazon Redshift team and the approach they have taken to improve the performance of their data warehousing service as an example. Note: You need valid AWS credentials to access the public S3 data. Verifying benchmark claims.

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