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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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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Blast radius.

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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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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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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

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