The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes? A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Quite contrary, this was the era of the 250GB / month cap from Comcast and we could observe clearly that they were throttling Netflix traffic. There are more quotes, more everything.

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. But what is the purpose behind this model? One downside of the hybrid cloud is related to downtime.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

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 ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AWS EKS for Integration and Production. When focusing on the LanguageController service we learn that it’s currently deployed in three pods across three EKS nodes across two AWS Availability Zones (AZ). 4 AWS EFS monitoring. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. NGINX as an API Gateway.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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. Increased scalability. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. By Rafal Gancarz

Architecture 55

Architecture Scalability Latency Traffic 55

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 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform. Mantis is our go-to platform for processing operational data at Netflix.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability. 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

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Strategic allocation of these resources plays a crucial role in achieving scalability, cost savings, improved performance, and staying ahead of advancements in the field. This also aids scalability down the line. Just like a conductor orchestrating an ensemble of instruments to play at specific times for optimal performance.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 113

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

It is available for the major OS and cloud platforms (for example, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AWS, Azure, and more) and only requires the deployment of a single service to monitor its environment. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

Metrics 173

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 173

High Scalability

APRIL 26, 2019

They'll learn a lot and hold you in even greater awe. $30 30 million : Apple's per month AWS bill ( a ~50% reduction ); 73% : Azure YoY growth; 3,500 : times per day andon cords are pulled at Toyota; $1 trillion : size of micromobility market; $1 billion : cryptopiracy is the new sea piracy; $702 million : Tesla fist quarter loss; $5.0

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Azure 28

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

PurePath 4 supports serverless computing out-of-the-box, including Kubernetes services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). FaaS like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions are seamlessly integrated with no code changes. Technical scalability without limits.

Analytics 157

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 157

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

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Ensure scalability and performance optimization: As your clone app gains popularity and attracts more users, scalability and performance optimization become crucial. Choose a robust technology stack that can handle high traffic and accommodate future growth. Evaluate your resources and timeline to make an informed decision.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

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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Availability Network Azure AWS 149

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. Many young businesses as well as established enterprises are already using AWS, many of them targeting customers globally. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency 118

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With these additional availability zones you’ll get: More scalability and load-balancing options. Some organizations require adding IP addresses to security configurations to allow traffic from and to them. your website or application) needs to accept traffic from the IP addresses of our synthetic locations.

Scalability 20

Scalability Traffic Benchmarking Monitoring 20

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At its heart it uses Istio (for traffic control) and Knative (for event driven tool orchestration) and stores all configuration in Git – following the GitOps approach. Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline …. It takes your artifacts (e.g: Pitometer and keptn drive the path towards better automated deployment decisions.

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

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.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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 All Things Distributed. Elastic Beanstalk a la Node.

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AWS Mobile Games Java 105

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. This includes 50MB data traffic per day. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). All Things Distributed.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 109

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. Scalability. Traffic refers to how much demand is being placed on your system, which depending on the service, is typically HTTP requests per second. Monitoring Serverless Applications with Dotcom-Monitor.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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Innovation AWS Education Network 149

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

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. root@ip-172-31-37-92 ~]# aws ec2 describe-snapshots --query "sort_by(Snapshots, &StartTime)[-1].{SnapshotId:SnapshotId,StartTime:StartTime}" mongodb-27017.sock

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52