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

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 100

All Things Distributed

MARCH 27, 2019

At re:Invent 2018, AWS announced the AWS App Mesh public preview, a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across applications. Today, I'm happy to announce that App Mesh is generally available for use by customers. New architectural patterns.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure.

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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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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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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.

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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.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

For today’s highly dynamic and exceedingly complex production environments, performance problems that are evident at the service level (for example, slow response times or failed requests) are often the result of underlying (cloud) infrastructure issues. Enrich OpenTelemetry instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

It allows organizations to define policies in a domain-specific language (DSL) tailored to infrastructure-as-code (IAC) configurations. For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources."

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Install Falco in AWS EKS to gather security-relevant events from all the happenings in Unguard. First, Dynatrace OneAgent  will automatically monitor and trace our infrastructure and communicate with Dynatrace. To keep it real, we have a load generator that creates benign traffic. It also generates  OpenTelemetry  traces.

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Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 201

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda. The introduction of containers brought everyone a similar but lighter weight mechanism.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. Containers solve a fundamental code portability problem and enable new infrastructure patterns on the cloud. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate.

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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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 147

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

The term "synthetic" is used because it does not rely on traffic generated by real clients and end-users. Canary AWS refers to these synthetic monitors as "canaries" (like "canary in the coal mine"). A canary is a script that can be customized and is typically coded in JavaScript or Python.

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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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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 118

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. The primary challenge being not able to access the underlying infrastructure metrics. Scalability. Organizations must decide what they’re willing to part with when moving to a serverless environment. Monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment. Cassandra persistence module is a partial implementation.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Application traffic will be redirected to this new master MySQL node and the slave S2 will start replicating from the new master. At ScaleGrid, we offer highly available hosting for MySQL on AWS and MySQL on Azure that is implemented based on the concepts explained in this blog series.

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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. 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 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

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 188

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Data Pipeline using Delta In the following sections, we are going to describe the Delta-Connector that connects to a datastore and publishes CDC events to the Transport Layer, which is a real-time data transportation infrastructure routing CDC events to Kafka topics. High availability, via standby instances across AWS Availability Zones.

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Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Faisal Siddiqi Infrastructure for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning?—? As with other traditional machine learning and deep learning paths, a lot of what the core algorithms can do depends upon the support they get from the surrounding infrastructure and the tooling that the ML platform provides.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

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. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

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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. Jack: Thank you.

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VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers.

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VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

You need to monitor it, so how should you monitor the monitoring systems… The first thing that would be useful is to have a monitoring system that has failure modes which are uncorrelated with the infrastructure it is monitoring. The SaaS provider can then also act as a monitor for the in-house systems.

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Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

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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