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., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Cluster management, a common software infrastructure among technology companies, aggregates compute resources from a collection of physical hosts into a shared resource pool, amplifying compute power and allowing for the flexible use of data center hardware.

Hardware 103

Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Technology 103

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

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. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g.,

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Cluster management, a common software infrastructure among technology companies, aggregates compute resources from a collection of physical hosts into a shared resource pool, amplifying compute power and allowing for the flexible use of data center hardware.

Hardware 62

Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Technology 62

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

These examples underline that the purpose of software today is not solely to support business processes, but that software solutions have broadly become an essential element in multiple business areas. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. General Purpose GPU programming. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136