The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

To improve data accuracy, we decided to leverage AWS S3 access logs to identify entity relationships not been captured by our traditional ingestion process. During the conformance process, the data collected from different sources is transformed to make sure that all entities in our data flow, such as tables, jobs, reports, etc.

Infrastructure 225

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 225

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I joined AWS about seven years ago, when it was growing fast, there was headcount and flexibility in hiring, and Amazon was famously cheap about the office space it occupied. I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Nowadays I’d say a hard no to anyone thinking of working there.

AWS 98

AWS Energy Innovation Strategy 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. Netlify , Vercel , CloudFlare , and AWS all have the concept of serverless functions run at edge nodes of a CDN. Online, and live.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

VoltDB

JUNE 21, 2024

The fact is: AI and ML data have incredible business impact potential, but only with the support of true real-time data processing. An awful lot of the available time will be spent cranking the handle of your AI decision engine, leaving little time for all the other stuff that has to happen.

Speed 52

Speed Engineering Media Java 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls).

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Comments (). Nijssen ed.,

Operating System 131

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 131

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I’d helped eBay recover from capacity related outages in 1999 and had setup their capacity planning processes. He hasn’t changed.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52