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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The subsystems all communicate with each other asynchronously via Timestone, a high-scale, low-latency priority queuing system. Warm capacity.

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Five Steps to Building a Tier 1 Service that Is Resilient to Outages

DZone

They address the primary use cases for the organization’s products or support its underlying vital infrastructures, such as a product search service for an e-commerce site, a content posting service for a social media app, or a payment processing framework. That is why it is important to build these services right the first time.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). One use case for STM is to model the behavior of a customer in the form of a flow of transactions along the buyer’s journey.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Optimize Images for Web

KeyCDN

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. How to optimize images for social media for better engagement and CTR. How to optimize images for SEO to rank and index better in search engines.

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Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads

All Things Distributed

Modern applications need to quickly navigate connections in the physical world of people, cities, and public transit stations as well as the virtual world of search terms, social posts, and genetic code, for example. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers.

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Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website

Smashing Magazine

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. The images embedded in social media when sharing our content are of particular interest.

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