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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members.

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Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists

The Netflix TechBlog

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. To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations. To meet that demand, we need to attract the world’s best artistic talent.

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. Thereby streamlining their database infrastructure without any major complications or stress accompanying doing the same effectively resulting in fewer worries when setting out sail onboard!

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

The many disaster scenarios and outcomes allow chaos engineers to better model what happens to applications and microservices, which gives them increasing intelligence to share with developers to perfect software and cloud-native infrastructure. The history of chaos engineering. Netflix pioneered chaos engineering out of necessity.

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

Percona

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. Because of this flexibility, businesses may choose the infrastructure that best meets their needs.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

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. SPICE is cloud-native, which means that customers don’t need to provision, manage, or scale infrastructure manually.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

Rob Hirschfeld of RackN had this perspective on the impact of AI on his domain of infrastructure automation. We are going to have to get used to the idea that the entities we are interacting with, whether via email, social media, news and entertainment, or on the roads are increasingly AI operated, and we won’t be able to tell.