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.),

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. What is serverless computing?

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Serverless container services.

Serverless 221

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 221

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 346

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 346

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Monolithic applications earned their name because their structure is a single running application, which often shares the same physical infrastructure. Let’s break it down.

Cloud 230

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 230

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. Public sector.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cloud Infrastructure Services -- An analysis of potentially anti-competitive practices by Professor Frédéric Jenny. What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. A group advocating for fair licensing. It's a choice.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

Development 255

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 255

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure , DigitalOcean. Are you a startup that has free AWS or Azure hosting credits you’d like to use for your database hosting? Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

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. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. billion in 2020 to $4.1

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

The data platform is built on top of several distributed systems, and due to the inherent nature of these systems, it is inevitable that these workloads run into failures periodically. We have been working on an auto-diagnosis and remediation system called Pensive in the data platform to address these concerns.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

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.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail? What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations. 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.

Entertainment 306

Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

While to-date it’s been possible to integrate Dynatrace Managed for intelligent monitoring of services running on AWS and Azure, today we’re excited to announce the release of our Dynatrace Managed marketplace listing for the Google Cloud Platform. For more details, see Dynatrace Managed hardware and systems requirements.

Cloud 215

Cloud Availability Azure Google 215

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

As organizations expand their cloud footprints, they are combining public, private, and on-premises infrastructures. But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. Dynatrace news. As a result, VA had to rapidly scale its on-premises Citrix environment.

Cloud 181

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 181

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).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. How do you make a system observable? Dynatrace news. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The many disaster scenarios and outcomes allow chaos engineers to better model what happens to applications and microservices, which gives them increasing intelligence to share with developers to perfect software and cloud-native infrastructure. Unclear starting system state. The history of chaos engineering. Blast radius.

Engineering 230

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 230

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. Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

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 MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. What Exactly is Greenplum? So, how is this all coordinated? Open Source.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. All Things Distributed.

Storage 116

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 116

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?

Cloud 181

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 181

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. Full-stack and infrastructure monitoring modes. For more details, see Get started with infrastructure monitoring.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. This tradeoff is unacceptable to public infrastructure providers, who need both strong security and minimal overhead. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

While optimizing delivery is very important, I haven’t focused enough on how Dynatrace helps IT Service Operation teams answer key questions they are faced with every day in their demanding job to keep Service Levels of their systems, services and applications within the defined agreements (SLAs). These options give you full flexibility.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

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. Build evolvable systems. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.”

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. To think about it another way, site reliability engineering is where the traditional IT role, or system administration role, and DevOps meet. What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do?

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. S3 on AWS). From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Total Cost of Ownership.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1. Most of this infrastructure was deployed as a large monolithic application.

Latency 166

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Cost-Saver.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

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. Serverless systems are still in their infancy. Rapid Development - You can quickly deploy a function without having to worry about infrastructure resources and growth. Amazon: AWS Lambda.

Serverless 64

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64