The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Partners across the globe leverage Netflix device certification process on a continual basis to ensure that quality products and experiences are delivered to their customers. The certification process involves the verification of partner’s implementation of features provided by the Netflix SDK. We also provide an API client in Python.

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High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use. Learn the Good Parts of AWS. Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. The result is a process that doesn't get you the best employees you could.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

The selection process for a suitable cloud provider is crucial as it involves aligning business objectives, regulatory requirements, and current technological infrastructure with strong cloud security measures. This process involves converting regular data into a coded form, which helps to protect its privacy and guard against cyber threats.

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Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

As you all know security, privacy, and protection of our customer’s data is our number one priority and as such we work very closely with regulators to ensure that customers can be assured that they are getting the right protections when processing and storing data in the AWS.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. For example, Blumira offers a third-party solution while AWS provides its own with CloudWatch.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

My talks on Failing Over Without Falling Over are still very relevant, but AWS did finally release a key new service that implements key parts of the architecture: AWS Route 53 Application Recovery Controller. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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. Langchain is frequently used to look up relevant articles that weren’t in ChatGPT’s training data and package them as part of a lengthy prompt.

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Artificial Intelligence Programming Games Open Source 75

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., He also talked about common pitfalls of stream-processed data like out of order processing. The final stage performs some lexicographical post processing.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

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. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 161

All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

At Amazon, we are heavily invested in machine learning (ML), and are developing new tools to help developers quickly and easily build, train, and deploy ML models. The challenge was that technology wasn't capable of processing real human conversation. A variety of digital assistants are playing a big role here. Want to learn more?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc., He also talked about common pitfalls of stream-processed data like out of order processing. The final stage performs some lexicographical post processing.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

It provides better and simple disaster recovery because the process is automated. When we decide to start cloud-based testing in a project then we need to decide how we are going to manage the whole process of cloud-based testing. What are the areas which will be affected and need proper planning and management during this process?

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Cloud Testing Testing Tools Internet 67

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

VoltDB

MARCH 13, 2024

Even if it’s only 10 seconds, that’s a 10-second backlog that will have to be processed when ‘normal service has resumed’. Don’t wait till the AWS bill comes in before doing this! The failure of one such system will rapidly ripple throughout the entire ecosystem of automated systems, causing widespread chaos and erratic behavior.

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Availability Latency DevOps Systems 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2020

Well, that’s exactly what the Dynatrace University team did to support Dynatrace’s hands-on training (HoT) days at Dynatrace’s annual user conference Perform in Las Vegas. The Dynatrace dashboard below that shows the thousands of EC2 instances coming up and then being removed at the close of the training. Quite impressive! Automation.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events. I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ve got you covered), partnering with friends on a fascinating open source project, our most comprehensive training course yet, plenty of speaking engagements (see our expanding portfolio of talks that we can give to your team here ), and a revisit of an old friend. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At Amazon, machine learning has been key to many of our business processes, from recommendations to fraud detection, from inventory levels to book classification to abusive review detection. Some examples of popular deep learning frameworks that we support on AWS include Caffe, CNTK, MXNet, TensorFlow, Theano, and Torch.

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AWS Open Source Scalability Programming 167

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

We trained a neural net to spot words in Netflix content and reassemble them into new sentences on demand. By Guy Cirino and Carenina Garcia Motion TerraVision [link] TerraVision re-envisions the creative process and revolutionizes the way our filmmakers can search and discover filming locations.

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Energy Java AWS Google 37

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Unlike other competitors in the market, the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform is purpose-built for dynamic enterprise cloud environments such as AWS, with full automation and AI at the core. Achieve full observability of all AWS services. The AWS services listed below are adding upon the services already released.

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AWS Cloud IoT Database 265

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For example, a CNBC report found that training just one LLM can cost millions of dollars, and then millions more to update. With its topology mapping and dependency tracking, Dynatrace provides tools that help analysts determine which processes use what resources to troubleshoot and optimize at the process level.

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Cloud Energy Innovation Infrastructure 203

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. On the other hand, very few data scientists feel strongly about the nature of the data warehouse, the compute platform that trains and scores their models, or the workflow scheduler. The steps can be arbitrary Python code.

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Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

which has received some specialized training. with specialized training. Sydney is based on GPT-4, 1 with additional training. Kosmos-1 Developed by Microsoft, and trained on image content in addition to text. They’ve all had additional specialized training; and they all have a reasonably well-designed user interface.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. On the other hand, very few data scientists feel strongly about the nature of the data warehouse, the compute platform that trains and scores their models, or the workflow scheduler. The steps can be arbitrary Python code.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. report that the difficulty of training a model is a problem.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. It automatically manages all the computing resources those processes require.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

It originated as Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended (aka eBPF) for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality. I'm also grateful that my fiancée, Deirdré Straughan, could find the time outside of her AWS job to do technical copy-edit.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Predictable: The scikit-learn classifiers share a similar interface, so you can invoke the same train() call on each one while passing in the same training dataset. Or that, just maybe, your training data is no good for the challenge at hand. Yes, this calls for a for() loop. Get your results in a few hours. Damn convenient.

Tuning 133

Tuning Open Source AWS Software 133

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

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DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 140

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. There really was an outage and AWS did a great job notifying their users about any service disruptions via their AWS Service Health Dashboard. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 183

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We built Axion primarily to remove any training-serving skew and make offline experimentation faster. We make sure there is no training/serving skew by using the same data and the code for online and offline feature generation. Our machine learning models train on several weeks of data.

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Research from 2020 suggests that training a single LLM generates around 300,000 kg of carbon dioxide emissions—equal to 125 round-trip flights from New York to London. For example, Dynatrace has been able to view underutilized instances in a specific AWS data center along with top CO2e emitters within a specific host group.

Energy 227

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 227

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, training on more data means more accurate models. At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Now, thousands of customers are trying Amazon SageMaker and building ML models on top of their data lakes in AWS.

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Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. Executing cutting-edge intelligent apps’ deployment after successful training becomes much easier thanks primarily to this functionality made possible! Additionally.

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