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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. But the cloud brought new complexities, such as increasing connections and dependencies.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

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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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. These databases require significant time commitment along with necessary technical skills plus hardware & software costs, all of which are without dedicated team assistance. These advantages come at an expense.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Early web applications involved less on client-side behavior and more server-side for all its navigation, query handling, and updates. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. No response from the server within the determined timeout. HTTP error.

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

Percona

Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. Entertainment : To guarantee that viewers have continuous access to films and TV series, film studios and television networks rely on Kubernetes for content delivery and streaming.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). and we aim to do it really well.