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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Controlling the chaos.

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

All Things Distributed

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. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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

All Things Distributed

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Building a Rule-Based Platform to Manage Netflix Membership SKUs at Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

By Budhaditya Das , Wallace Wang , and Scott Yao At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world. To solve the challenges mentioned above and meet our rapidly evolving business needs, we re-architected the legacy SKU catalog from the ground up and partnered with the Growth Engineering team to build a scalable SKU platform.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Users are likely to abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Connection Time.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design

Smashing Magazine

My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences. Masking Scalable Type.

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