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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix’s unique work culture and petabyte-scale data problems are what drew me to Netflix. During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list!

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017. Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. The first platform is a real time, big data platform being used for analyzing traffic usage patterns to identify congestion and connectivity issues. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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Microsoft Engineering loves SQLBits

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft engineering is actually sending quite a few folks over the Atlantic to come talk about SQL Server 2017, SQL Server on Linux, GDPR, Performance, Security, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure CosmosDB. Best practices on Building a Big Data Analytics Solution – Michael Rys.

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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

In Amazon’s case, there is room to make some big data savings on the desktop site and we shouldn’t get complacent just because the screen size suggests I’m not on a mobile device. and skyZIP Proxy (which, last updated in 2017 and riddled with typos, I just couldn’t bring myself to trust). Conclusion.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

His most recent book, Hacking Web Performance , walks the reader through improving performance from initial load and data transfer to resource loading and the overall user experience. His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. You can follow Max on Twitter @ firt.