All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Storage: don’t break the bank! which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. Storage I/O. What I was most excited for was the launch of a new EC2 hypervisor, which I referred to in the video as the "c5 hypervisor".

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. Storage I/O. What I was most excited for was the launch of a new EC2 hypervisor, which I referred to in the video as the "c5 hypervisor".

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Detect a regression in a test case. It can be used in Python notebooks ?

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Media Files.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

While I was returning from an exciting time in New Orleans watching the Super Bowl, AWS launched a very cool, brand new service: Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Amazon Elastic Transcoder is designed to be very easy to use, scalable and cost-effective video transcoding in the cloud. . | Comments (). blog comments powered by Disqus.

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AWS Media Scalability Storage 102

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

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. If you want a quick introduction on how to get started with mixing Spot Instances with On-Demand Instances in an Amazon EMR cluster, watch this Getting Started Video. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. What would the world look like if all of our storage was in the cloud, and access to that storage was so fast we didn’t care?

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and audio in codec agnostic container formats and provides features such as audio video synchronization, random access and DRM protection. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Database management: Choose a database management system that can handle large amounts of data and ensure efficient retrieval and storage. Cloud infrastructure and hosting: Consider using cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for hosting and scaling your UberEats clone.

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Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Are videos properly optimized? Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Are videos properly optimized?

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List. An example of video data is video metadata, like the length of a video. Time is a critical component of Axion?—?When

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

. ## Observability Here's the big picture of performance observability tools on Linux, from my [Linux performance] page, where I also have diagrams for other tool types, as well as videos and slides of prior Linux performance talks: I also have a USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist , as a different way to navigate and apply the tools.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. How Bulldozer leverages Spark, Protobuf and KV DAL for moving the data.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. both for compute and storage. For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services. Get started at metaflow.org.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) are stored in secure storage layers. Amsterdam is built on top of three storage layers. It is also responsible for asset discovery, validation, sharing, and for triggering workflows.

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Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. both for compute and storage. For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services. Get started at metaflow.org.

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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.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Live online training, videos, books, certification prep, and more, from O’Reilly and our partner publishers. AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage.

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

300% : AWS IoT growth per year; 74% : mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4 trillion : new record for calculating digits of pi (121 days); 112Gbps : Intel's SerDes; 100M : image and video dataset; 1.5 It has 40 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.

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Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. What problem are we solving? Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

As Dan Rayburn wrote on his Business of Video blog, "Amazon will be in the drivers seat to own the market for small and medium sized content owners who need simple delivery at a great price.". Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All postings. Recent Entries.

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