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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. This also aids scalability down the line.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. If customers have many tiny files, then storage and bandwidth don’t amount to much even if they are making millions of requests.

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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Machine Learning Service, the Amazon Elastic Filesystem and more

All Things Distributed

The Amazon Elastic File System. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. Customers have been asking to add file system functionality to our set of solutions as much of their traditional software required a broad accessible shared file system.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best. Remember that certain MySQL features like the MyISAM storage engine are not available with Amazon Aurora. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

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