All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It's Christmas time and you've been wracking your brain trying to find the perfect gift that will teach your loved ones about the cloud in a simple and entertaining way. Fortunately for you, Santa has a new elf this year— Forrest Brazeal —who is part AWS Serverless Hero, part skilled cartoonist, and part cloud guru.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Example use case: Content Knowledge Graph Our knowledge graph of the entertainment world encodes relationships between titles, actors and other attributes of a film or series, supporting all aspects of business at Netflix. A key challenge in creating a knowledge graph is entity resolution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

It usually has dependencies, talks to other services, and lives in different AWS regions. A healthy Netflix service enables us to entertain the world. An application lives in an ecosystem The Application Health Model A microservice doesn’t live in isolation. Telltale is application monitoring simplified.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These teams will each receive a $100,000 research grant as a stipend, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) services to support their development efforts, access to new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) APIs, and support from the Alexa team. University of Trento, Italy: Roving Minds. University of Washington, Seattle: HuskyBot.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. More information.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above). In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the journey of content-based imagery on the Netflix homepage.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

link] Abiade moved from Expedia to work at AWS and she presented again in 2019 at re:Invent with examples from Lyft showing how they cut the AWS spend component of their cost per ride by 40% by making cost visible and providing tools to optimize. link] For a deep dive on savings plans, this video is excellent.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 5, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. Recent work has given me much fulfilment and a long list of truly awful bugs to recount.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

link] Abiade moved from Expedia to work at AWS and she presented again in 2019 at re:Invent with examples from Lyft showing how they cut the AWS spend component of their cost per ride by 40% by making cost visible and providing tools to optimize. link] For a deep dive on savings plans, this video is excellent.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. But there's another factor at play: jobs are also migrating from both Solaris and Linux to cloud jobs instead, specifically AWS. I suspect at some point there'll be more jobs supporting the AWS cloud than there will be supporting Linux.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. has given me much fulfilment and a long list of truly awful bugs to recount. "1: nop nt " " pushsection __jump_table, " aw " nt " " align 3 nt " " long 1b -., %l[l_yes] Recent work.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. Netflix pioneered chaos engineering out of necessity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At Netflix, we seek to entertain the world by ensuring our members find the shows and movies that will thrill them. To learn more, follow the Netflix Research Site , and if you are also interested in entertaining the world, have a look at our openroles !

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. As a native offering from AWS, QuickSight comes deeply integrated with AWS data sources such as Amazon Redshift, RDS, and S3.

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