High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure.

Internet 113

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js Today, AWS Elastic Beanstalk just added support for Node.js to help developers easily deploy and manage these web applications on AWS. Elastic Beanstalk a la Node. Comments ().

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AWS Mobile Games Java 102

O'Reilly

AUGUST 8, 2023

At its peak, ChatGPT was in very exclusive company: it’s not quite on the level of Python, Kubernetes, and Java, but it’s in the mix with AWS and React, and significantly ahead of Docker. Then it dropped almost as quickly: it dropped back to #8 in June, and fell further to #19 in July. There are now many alternative language models.

Artificial Intelligence 72

Artificial Intelligence Programming Games Open Source 72

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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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers.

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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.

Cloud 120

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 120

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. The ability to run in a degraded but available state during an outage is still a marked improvement over completely stopping traffic flow.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. The opposite is true. Building applications with purpose-built databases.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. With peak demand of 1.5

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Games Retail Latency Education 112

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

300% : AWS IoT growth per year; 74% : mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4 were using Google Cloud Storage, but given too many issues big and small over the year, we’ll be migrating to AWS S3 for storage going forward. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

FaaS takes the game one more step ahead and frees the architects and developers from server and infrastructure responsibilities. For example, as the traffic increases, you can allocate two more machines to a particular zone. You can also integrate Testsigma with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Source: Smart Data Collective.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker).

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