All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

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. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Traffic for these sites has been extremely high, given increased online activity due to COVID, not to mention the huge volume of cyber shopping happening as we speak. Perhaps we should entertain a reset of the current threshold for this Vital. We explored how these two metrics (FID and JS Long tasks) correlate with $$$ conversions $$$.

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Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 111

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. The most common web traffic transforms implement URL encryption, cookie signing, and anti-CSRF tokens to block CSRF attacks.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 183

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

We also highlight interesting broader events such as regional traffic evacuations and nearby deployments , information that is vital to understanding health holistically. Regional traffic evacuations. A regional traffic shift means one region ends up with zero traffic while another region has double.

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

It was the first new Pokémon game in years, the first official Pokémon smartphone game, and Niantic’s first project in concert with a major entertainment company. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates.

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Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 102

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Monitoring of the network for the applications using the network, traffic, and bandwidth allocations can improve the network latency. A few days later, the traffic on the website will get back to the normal state.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above).

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Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Because we would like to time-travel all the services together to replicate a specific point in time in the past, we created a new capability to start stacks of multiple services with a common time configuration and route traffic between them on-the-fly per experiment to maintain temporal accuracy of the data.

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Metrics Government Systems Testing 124

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Because we would like to time-travel all the services together to replicate a specific point in time in the past, we created a new capability to start stacks of multiple services with a common time configuration and route traffic between them on-the-fly per experiment to maintain temporal accuracy of the data.

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Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Because we would like to time-travel all the services together to replicate a specific point in time in the past, we created a new capability to start stacks of multiple services with a common time configuration and route traffic between them on-the-fly per experiment to maintain temporal accuracy of the data.

Metrics 100

Metrics Government Systems Testing 100

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. The UK tracker plots the growth in AWS jobs clearly: The job growth is in distributed systems, cloud SRE, data science, cloud network engineering, traffic and chaos engineering, container scheduling, and other new roles.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is a digital media and content infrastructure provider that powers an ever-growing number of massively popular media and entertainment properties.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices. Congestion can cause interactions between treatment and control groups; in other cases we are unable to randomize due to the nature of our traffic steering algorithms.

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a company, we aim to be curious, and to truly and honestly understand our members around the world, and how we can better entertain them. This series has focused on fixed time horizon tests: sample sizes, the proportion of traffic allocated to each treatment experience, and the test duration are all fixed in advance.

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Education Innovation Testing Programming 238