The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud. Wednesday?—?December Thursday?—?December

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

While datacenter based IT costs are largely fixed, in a three year depreciation schedule, cloud costs are inherently variable, and can be sized to fit the need. When times get tough, a focus on cost optimization can also greatly reduce cloud costs, and the results take effect in next month’s bill.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. Without cloud-based rendering, this ambitious project would not have met its targeted delivery date! Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

More startups, small and medium businesses, large enterprises, universities, and government organizations all over the world are moving to the AWS Cloud faster than ever before. Media and Entertainment – BBC , Channel 4 , ITV , News UK , The FT , Trinity Mirror , The Guardian.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Organizations across Italy have been using the AWS Cloud for over a decade, using AWS Regions located outside of Italy. We have offices in Rome and Milan, where we continue to help Italian customers of all sizes move to the AWS Cloud. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Chris Guzikowski discusses the convergence of microservices, cloud, containers, and orchestration that points toward the rise of a Next Architecture. Next Architecture.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

Fortunately, migration via cloud makes upgrading less of a pain in the ass. The transition from exciting to ordinary correlates to the utility value of technology in our lives: in personal productivity, entertainment, and increasingly as the primary (if not only) channel for doing things.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The creative company - e.g., a studio that yields original work, anything from entertainments to custom software assets - benefits from how much it exposes itself to environmental uncertainty and how effectively it internalizes relevant learnings from it to create a successful, if unique and one-off, solution.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Frequently Asked Questions What are the disadvantages of DBaaS?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud. Wednesday?—?December Thursday?—?December

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

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ScaleOut Software

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“Tame Your Data Monster” illustrates the power of real-time digital twins in an entertaining new video. Check out this new video which depicts the challenges in using conventional tools for streaming analytics to track and respond to thousands of data sources in a live system.

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ScaleOut Software

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“Tame Your Data Monster” illustrates the power of real-time digital twins in an entertaining new video. Check out this new video which depicts the challenges in using conventional tools for streaming analytics to track and respond to thousands of data sources in a live system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scaling HDMI Testing Here are some of the challenges associated with HDMI testing on STBs: The need to physically obtain and replicate different home entertainment setups of TVs and Home Theater Systems (HDMI topologies). Time spent in manually changing these topologies between and during different tests.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. Some of those innovations, like Amazon’s cloud computing business, represented enormous new markets and a new business model. Attention allocation was outsourced to the machines.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve been diligent about data backup throughout my life, but my files are fragmented amongst different media over the years—burning CDs and DVDs back in the day, several generations of external hard drives (that are in various states of decay), university servers, Dropbox, and other cloud services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. By Michelle Brenner Netflix is poised to become the world’s most prolific producer of visual effects and original animated content. Now that you know why, here is how we did it.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

It was the first new Pokémon game in years, the first official Pokémon smartphone game, and Niantic’s first project in concert with a major entertainment company. Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Source: Gartner, Defining Cloud Web Application and API Protection Services, Refreshed May 2020, Published 26 February 2019, Jeremy D’Hoinne and Adam Hils). ESG’s The Maturation of Cloud-Native Security eBook. Further reading.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2021

As consumers migrate online to shop, entertain themselves, and perform banking activities, they are now more at risk from account takeover, identity theft, and privacy abuses. Is security a barrier to digitally transforming? Security concerns impede banks’ efforts. Consumer fraud hit records amid the pandemic.

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Apica

MARCH 31, 2022

Getting to a hybrid model, with the orchestration engine in the cloud and their agents on-premises is an advantage for Shafi M. His team is also finding that Apica helps with URL based monitoring that catches expired certificates as well as encryption changes that have an impact on end-users’ ability to access the environment.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

You get the drift — more and more people are using smartphones every day for both essentials and entertainment. Sauce Labs: Sauce Labs is a cloud-based automation testing platform that supports testing on native apps and mobile web. Space: It’s fully cloud-based so it doesn’t consume any space on your machines.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. In case of corruption in the primary data warehouse, the backup will be generated immediately.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. Network Latency.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I’ve always wondered why this is: what it is about developers and their experience that tends to make them react to the idea of “root cause is a myth” like an immune system seeking out a foreign agent, while operations engineers tend to at least entertain the idea? is a fleeting notion at best.

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Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. That'd make a great story, but it didn't happen. During this time we did do plenty of hard work, rolling out new technologies and major microservice versions, and fixed many problems big and small.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Xen's biggest user is the Amazon EC2 cloud, which has over one million customers, and appears to be a custom version (it self identifies as version "3.4.3.amazon"). I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. The OS is becoming a forgotten cog in a much larger cloud-based system.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

During the Second World War, burning oil to produce thick smoke prevented all but a few German bombs, but when I was in my teens, a different toxic cloud, Thatcherism, hung over Corby as it did many industrial and manufacturing centres across the UK. Widely spaced letters became a familiar part of Brody’s designs for The Face.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions. Along with data generated in the cloud, customers also have legacy data sitting in on-premises datacenters, scattered on user desktops, or stored in SAS applications. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

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