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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet. There was already a payment system — it was called the credit card. They'll learn a lot and love you even more. They'll learn a lot and love you even more. It happened because we didn't have to do any of the heavy lifting.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 21st, 2018

High Scalability

Aria Bracci : Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. Too often, those who already hold power, those who are least able to recognize the flaws in our current systems, are the ones who decide our technological future. More quotes.

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

The Morning Paper

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Fixed-ladder HDR encodes have been fully replaced by optimized ones, reducing storage footprint and Internet data usage — and most importantly, improving the video quality for our members.

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Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

Dynatrace

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Closed-loop remediation: Why unified observability is an essential auto-remediation best practice

Dynatrace

Closed loop” refers to the continuous feedback loop in which the system takes actions — based on monitoring and analysis — and verifies the results to ensure complete problem remediation. The goal is to either improve or restore the system to its optimally functioning state. If successful, the system closes the loop and notifies teams.