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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

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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Case Study: Pokémon GO on Google Cloud Load Balancing

High Scalability

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. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

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

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. The most common web traffic transforms implement URL encryption, cookie signing, and anti-CSRF tokens to block CSRF attacks. Further reading.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

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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