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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET? Expert Tip. No problem.

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A Spectrum of Actions, Part II

J. Paul Reed

They knew —from other incidents — there were all sorts of gremlins running around that infrastructure. Even though that remediation task was pretty minor — tweaking some low-level hardware settings on each physical server and rebooting — and could have been done quickly enough, there was intense debate on whether it should be done.

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Evolving Container Security With Linux User Namespaces

The Netflix TechBlog

This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace. These CVEs did not affect our infrastructure because we were using user namespaces for all of our containers.

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Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale Internet services at the edge

The Morning Paper

The ability of a datacenter to handle traffic changes over time as capacity is added or removed, and hardware upgraded The routing needs to be able to tolerate failures without making the situation worse. This outcome at our deployment scale means a reduction of our infrastructure footprint by more than one data center.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources.

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Automating chaos experiments in production

The Morning Paper

In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect.

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