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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads. Query Optimization.

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Auto-Diagnosis and Remediation in Netflix Data Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. Pensive collects logs for the failed jobs launched by the step from the relevant data platform components and then extracts the stack traces.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Python has long been a popular programming language in the networking space because it’s an intuitive language that allows engineers to quickly solve networking problems. are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture. What is BPF?

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

All Things Distributed

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities

Dynatrace

A hybrid cloud, however, combines public infrastructure and services with on-premises resources or a private data center to create a flexible, interconnected IT environment. Hybrid environments provide more options for storing and analyzing ever-growing volumes of big data and for deploying digital services.