All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

By not coupling the concepts of eligibility and availability into a single service, we enable increased developer productivity since each team is able to focus on their core competencies and any change in eligibility does not affect the SKU Platform. Lower latency as a result of fewer service calls, which means fewer errors for our visitors.

Engineering 142

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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. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. Alternatively, cars are now starting to directly embed AI into entertainment systems (e.g., So I figured that ChatGPT could help me brainstorm during one of my long drives.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. until today.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

To this end, we developed tools that compared real pages computed by our live production system with that of our simulators, both in terms of the final output and the features involved in our models. It has also helped us detect bugs early in the model development process when the offline metrics go vigorously against our hypothesis.

Metrics 124

Metrics Government Systems Testing 124

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

The proactive projects usually take weeks or months, and are where I'm developing a new technology or helping other teams with performance analysis or evaluations. A latency outlier issue that happened every 15 minutes. . ## A Day in the Life (Performance Engineering) What do I actually do all day?

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

To this end, we developed tools that compared real pages computed by our live production system with that of our simulators, both in terms of the final output and the features involved in our models. It has also helped us detect bugs early in the model development process when the offline metrics go vigorously against our hypothesis.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

To this end, we developed tools that compared real pages computed by our live production system with that of our simulators, both in terms of the final output and the features involved in our models. It has also helped us detect bugs early in the model development process when the offline metrics go vigorously against our hypothesis.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76