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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. AWS Lambda. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. Amazon Fargate.

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Evolution of Netflix Conductor:

The Netflix TechBlog

External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore. Instead of creating workers for simple evaluations, Lambda task enables the user to do this inline using simple Javascript expressions.

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Carving an AWS certification path

Dynatrace

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty: Very experienced networking professionals who are also proficient in AWS can benefit from getting this certification. However, AWS recommends getting the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificate or an equivalent Associate-level cert beforehand. Machine learning.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

It adopted Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR and AWS Lambda to power its data warehouse, big data, and data science applications, supporting the development of product features at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Some examples of how current customers use AWS are: Cost-effective solutions. Rapid time to market. Increasing agility.

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Unlocking the Value of Device Data with AWS Greengrass.

All Things Distributed

Some applications – medical equipment, industrial machinery, and building automation are just a few – can't rely exclusively on the cloud for control, and require some form of local storage and execution. This is determined by basic laws of physics: it takes time to send data to the cloud, and networks don't have 100% availability.

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Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

To maintain the quality of Lerner APIs, we are using the server-less paradigm for Lerner’s own integration testing by utilizing AWS Lambda. The agent training library exposes different types of learning agents that utilize neural networks to approximate action. Experiment with different neural network architectures.

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Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs

The Morning Paper

Which I’m quite happy to see as my most recent data pipeline is based around Lambda, S3, and Athena, and it’s been working great for my use case. For those systems where you provide your own compute instances, the default configuration tested used a 4-node r4.8xlarge cluster with 10Gb/s networking. The design space. Key findings.