Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more companies move away from traditional on-premises data centers, they enter into an era where scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness become possible through various services offered by different providers in the market today.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The quest for case studies. Once we've identified an opportunity like this, our research methodology focuses on developing case studies. We believe those institutions will ultimately overcome the diminishing returns that's the natural result of a focus on scalable efficiency and routine tasks.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world. flydubai chose to build their online check-in platform on AWS and went from design to production in four months.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Production-Ready Microservices — Learn how to design microservices that are stable, reliable, scalable, fault tolerant, performant, monitored, documented, and prepared for any catastrophe. But is it the right approach? This video presents a balanced view of the benefits and drawbacks of microservices.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Systems Code 80

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. We have already seen customers successfully run HPC workloads, Hadoop-based jobs (as shown in the BackType case study), and testing simulations (as shown in the BrowserMob case study) on Spot. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives. Topics include web design, security, web-based tools and workflows and more.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

Engineering 99

Engineering Performance Design Scalability 99

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2024

The revised architecture improved scalability and deployability and reduced resource utilization. The team at lastminute.com rearchitected the search result aggregation process by breaking up the single service into multiple ones and introducing asynchronous integration. By Rafal Gancarz

Scalability 103

Scalability Architecture Processing Development 103

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million. By Surabhi Diwan

Architecture 66

Architecture Technology Technology Design 66

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient. This makes it challenging to design effective far memory data structures. HotOS’19.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. It’s so easy to get design choices wrong and make things worse instead of making them better. In order to effectively design sociotechnical systems, I recommend using design heuristics. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

Design 40

Design Architecture Software Architecture Systems 40

InfoQ

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Monzo developed a solution for shedding traffic in case its platform comes under intense and unexpected load that could lead to an outage. Traffic spikes can be generated by the mobile app and triggered by push notifications or other bursts in user activity.

Traffic 59

Traffic Mobile Development Availability 59

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline. Case study: scaling match cutting using the media ML infra The Media Machine Learning Infrastructure is empowering various scenarios across Netflix, and some of them are described here.

Media 290

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and what are the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope. By Phil Calçado

Design 52

Design Scalability Architecture Performance 52

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 57

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 57

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The emergence of DevOps and continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) pipelines has fundamentally changed the nature of software design, development, and deployment. Kubernetes allows for the scheduling of containers on worker nodes and provides container orchestration, load balancing, distribution, and scalability.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. There are also cases where although the workload and operational needs seem to best fit to one solution, there are other limiting factors that may be blockers (or at least need special handling).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. More after jump!

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. SEO is key to our success.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable.

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Case studies abound. Prior to any peak event, take the time to review your CDN’s cache design and offload metrics to determine what improvements can be made. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs. A key to surviving a peak event is to have very good #CDN cache designs.

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Many articles and case studies published during the last decade successfully achieve the balance between abstract models and machine learning. Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data. How to get there?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104