The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. It is accessible only to vetted US entities and AWS account root users, who must confirm that they are US citizens or US permanent residents.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. Solving custom API observability with OpenTelemetry Because the bank group needed complete coverage for all API traffic, it wanted to standardize tracing on all API calls.

Open Source 192

Open Source Google Serverless Azure 192

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

OpenTelemetry for Go provides developers with an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing them to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for relevant services. OneAgent puts OpenTelemetry data for Go into context, providing topology information to related infrastructure components.

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 165

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deploy applications quickly and efficiently is crucial for organizations. In traditional software development practices, compliance checks often occur late in the development lifecycle, closer to deployment. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

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

Cloud 164

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 164

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

The Evolution of Testing and Monitoring Historically, software testing and system monitoring have been separate processes, each serving distinct purposes. Testing was primarily performed during the development lifecycle to identify and fix bugs, errors, and other issues before releasing the software to users.

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Monitoring Testing Artificial Intelligence Traffic 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand. . | Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency 117

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

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. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

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. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 181

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Dynatrace and AWS. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 143

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 214

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 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Whatever your use case, when log data reflects changes in your infrastructure or business metrics, you need to extract the metrics and monitor them.

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Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 213

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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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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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. Virginia (AWS) ?,

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 255

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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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Background‍The idea of managing infrastructure through code wasn't initiated by HashiCorp.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Hybrid cloud environments that integrate on-premises infrastructure with cloud services. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 170

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. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

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Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Respondents who have implemented serverless made custom tooling the top tool choice—implying that vendors’ tools may not fully address what organizations need to deploy and manage a serverless infrastructure. In our analysis, we assigned experience levels to our respondents for some of the survey questions. Industries of survey respondents.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The code is declarative, which means you specify what you want the final configuration to look like, and Terraform ensures the infrastructure matches that desired state.‍So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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. Source: FileFlex.

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DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. It also supports storing the backups on filesystem and AWS S3 buckets.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

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. AWS helps its customers do this too. Build evolvable systems. Automation is key.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Investing tons of efforts into IT, building complicated deployment and clustering software etc. They never question this belief. It also works well to justify an acquisition of more servers to investors. This is what happens in the company I work for, and couple of mid-size to big companies I worked for before.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

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. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Comments (). DynamoDB came along at just the right time. either way, itâ??s

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Games Scalability AWS Database 142