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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

The Netflix TechBlog

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. This program is just one example of the many ways Netflix strives to entertain the world.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. Briefly, let’s review the steps: The batch process is initiated by a cron job. the background image shown above).

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

This type of database offers scalability with no downtime along with giving businesses control over what resources they use through customization capabilities such as choosing hardware infrastructure options or building security measures around it. These advantages come at an expense.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

Previously, I wrote about Amazon QuickSight , a new service targeted at business users that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources quickly, easily, and at a low cost. QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) : RBAC manages permissions to ensure that only individuals, programs, or processes with the proper authorization can utilize particular resources. have adopted Kubernetes.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. …with a gradual upgrade process across a cluster, we have found that our existing applications do not notice hundred millisecond blips in communication that occur once per week. Enter Google! It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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