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AI Cyberspace
AI Cyberspace
Dec 17, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Why AWS’s Self‑Designed Chips Are Redefining AI Infrastructure

At AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon unveiled its self‑designed AI hardware trio—Graviton 4 CPU, Nitro 5 DPU, and Trainium 2 accelerator—explaining the innovation, efficiency, and cost advantages driving the strategy, and detailing how these chips power next‑generation cloud services, ultra‑high‑performance servers, and massive AI super‑computing clusters.

AI InfrastructureAI hardwareAWS
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Why AWS’s Self‑Designed Chips Are Redefining AI Infrastructure
Test Development Learning Exchange
Test Development Learning Exchange
Dec 4, 2024 · Cloud Computing

Using AWS S3 for Data Storage and Processing with Python

This tutorial guides readers through creating an AWS account, configuring the AWS CLI, uploading and downloading CSV files to S3, and using Python with pandas to clean, deduplicate, and aggregate the data before re‑uploading the results, illustrating end‑to‑end cloud data processing.

AWSCLICloud Computing
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Using AWS S3 for Data Storage and Processing with Python
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 9, 2024 · Cloud Computing

How One Engineer Runs a Full SaaS on Kubernetes with Minimal Effort

This article details how a solo engineer built and operated a SaaS platform on AWS using Kubernetes, covering infrastructure overview, automatic DNS, TLS, load balancing, CI/CD rollouts, autoscaling, caching, secret management, monitoring, logging, error tracking, and cost‑effective operations.

AWSCI/CDMonitoring
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How One Engineer Runs a Full SaaS on Kubernetes with Minimal Effort
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 2, 2024 · Cloud Computing

Why AWS Is Dropping 9 Services – What It Means for Developers

AWS announced the deprecation of nine services, including CodeCommit and QLDB, as part of a strategic shift under its new CEO, sparking debate among users about the impact on existing workloads, migration challenges, and the future focus on core cloud innovations.

AWSCodeCommitQLDB
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Why AWS Is Dropping 9 Services – What It Means for Developers
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jun 17, 2024 · Cloud Native

Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, and ArgoCD on AWS and Kubernetes

This step‑by‑step tutorial explains how to configure a full CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Docker, SonarQube, Helm, and ArgoCD on an AWS EC2 instance with Kubernetes, covering version‑control setup, instance provisioning, credential management, pipeline scripting, and automated deployment.

AWSArgoCDCI/CD
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Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, and ArgoCD on AWS and Kubernetes
21CTO
21CTO
Apr 13, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Amazon’s CEO Calls Generative AI the Biggest Tech Shift Since the Cloud

In a shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy outlines the company’s generative AI strategy, describing it as the most significant technological transformation since cloud computing, detailing AWS’s infrastructure investments, new services like Bedrock, and the broader impact on developers and customers.

AWSFoundation ModelsGenerative AI
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Why Amazon’s CEO Calls Generative AI the Biggest Tech Shift Since the Cloud
ITPUB
ITPUB
Mar 27, 2024 · Backend Development

How Instagram Scaled to 14 Million Users with Just Three Engineers

This article details how Instagram grew from zero to 14 million users in just over a year using three engineers by applying three core principles and a reliable AWS‑based tech stack covering frontend, load balancing, backend, PostgreSQL sharding, S3 storage, Redis caching, asynchronous task queues, and comprehensive monitoring.

AWSInstagramMonitoring
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How Instagram Scaled to 14 Million Users with Just Three Engineers
ITPUB
ITPUB
Mar 11, 2024 · Cloud Computing

What 4 Years of Startup Infrastructure Taught Me: AWS, Terraform, GitOps & More

After four years running infrastructure at a fast‑growing startup, the author reviews almost every major decision—from choosing AWS over GCP and adopting EKS, RDS, and Redis, to automating post‑mortems with Slack bots, standardising IaC with Terraform and GitOps, and evaluating SaaS tools like DataDog, PagerDuty, and Notion—highlighting the benefits, regrets, and practical lessons learned.

AWSCloud ComputingTerraform
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What 4 Years of Startup Infrastructure Taught Me: AWS, Terraform, GitOps & More
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Mar 7, 2024 · Operations

How Upgrading EBS Volumes Boosted etcd Write Performance by 30%

A technical deep‑dive shows how a team managing dozens of Kubernetes clusters diagnosed a write‑ahead‑log bottleneck in etcd, measured IOPS and latency with etcdctl and fio, upgraded gp2 volumes to gp3, and discovered diminishing returns beyond 3000 IOPS while explaining the role of fdatasync in storage performance.

AWSEBSEtcd
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How Upgrading EBS Volumes Boosted etcd Write Performance by 30%
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Jan 30, 2024 · Operations

Why IPv4 Costs Are Rising and How to Seamlessly Transition to IPv6

As public IPv4 addresses become scarce and providers like AWS, Fly.io, and Supabase begin charging per‑hour fees, organizations must confront rising costs, evaluate mitigation strategies, and overcome ISP and tooling challenges to adopt IPv6 for long‑term scalability.

AWSIPv4IPv6
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Why IPv4 Costs Are Rising and How to Seamlessly Transition to IPv6
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 31, 2023 · Backend Development

Why Prime Video Dropped Microservices for a Monolith and Cut Costs 90%

Prime Video’s engineers detail how abandoning a costly micro‑service and serverless setup for a streamlined monolithic architecture on EC2/ECS cut infrastructure expenses by over 90 % while boosting scalability, challenging the prevailing cloud‑native hype.

AWSCloud Cost OptimizationMicroservices
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Why Prime Video Dropped Microservices for a Monolith and Cut Costs 90%
37 Interactive Technology Team
37 Interactive Technology Team
Oct 10, 2023 · Cloud Computing

AWS Transit Gateway: Concepts, Configuration Steps, and Best Practices

The guide explains AWS Transit Gateway as a cloud router linking VPCs, VPNs, Direct Connect and on‑premises networks, details attachment types, route tables, MTU limits, step‑by‑step creation, custom routing, verification, and best‑practice design recommendations for scalable, highly available deployments.

AWSCloud ComputingNetwork Architecture
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AWS Transit Gateway: Concepts, Configuration Steps, and Best Practices
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 23, 2023 · Cloud Native

Build a Cloud‑Native Lakehouse on AWS with Apache Iceberg and Amoro

This guide explains the cloud‑native lakehouse concept, outlines its advantages and challenges, compares lake‑table projects such as Iceberg, and provides a step‑by‑step AWS deployment of Apache Iceberg and Amoro—including environment setup, AMS installation, catalog configuration, optimizer launch, data ingestion with Flink, and query verification with Spark.

AWSAmoroApache Iceberg
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Build a Cloud‑Native Lakehouse on AWS with Apache Iceberg and Amoro
Architect's Guide
Architect's Guide
Jul 26, 2023 · Cloud Native

Amazon Prime Video Case Study: From Serverless Microservices to a Cost‑Effective Monolith

An in‑depth analysis of Amazon Prime Video’s monitoring service reveals how the team abandoned a costly serverless micro‑service architecture in favor of a streamlined monolith on EC2/ECS, cutting infrastructure expenses by over 90% while improving scalability, prompting industry leaders to reassess cloud‑native design assumptions.

AWSMicroservicesarchitecture
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Amazon Prime Video Case Study: From Serverless Microservices to a Cost‑Effective Monolith
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jun 26, 2023 · Operations

Comprehensive DevOps Interview Guide: Key Concepts, Tools, and Practices

This article provides a thorough overview of DevOps fundamentals, differences from Agile, popular tools, lifecycle stages, CI/CD concepts, AWS roles, version control, SSH, Git commands, Jenkins architecture, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, and related interview questions to help candidates prepare for DevOps engineering positions.

AWSAutomationCI/CD
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Comprehensive DevOps Interview Guide: Key Concepts, Tools, and Practices
Selected Java Interview Questions
Selected Java Interview Questions
May 26, 2023 · Backend Development

Amazon Prime Video Case Study: Moving from Serverless Microservices to a Monolith Cuts Costs by Over 90%

The Prime Video engineering team replaced a costly, scaling‑limited serverless microservice architecture with a streamlined monolithic solution on EC2/ECS, achieving more than a 90% reduction in infrastructure expenses while improving scalability, sparking widespread debate about the true value of microservices and serverless approaches.

AWSServerlessbackend-architecture
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Amazon Prime Video Case Study: Moving from Serverless Microservices to a Monolith Cuts Costs by Over 90%
21CTO
21CTO
May 9, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Why Amazon Prime Video Switched to a Monolith and Cut Cloud Costs

Amazon Prime Video’s engineering team revealed that moving from a distributed micro‑service architecture to a single‑process monolith on EC2 and ECS slashed infrastructure expenses by over 90% while improving scalability, challenging the prevailing belief that serverless and micro‑services are always the most cost‑effective cloud solutions.

AWSCloud ComputingMicroservices
0 likes · 7 min read
Why Amazon Prime Video Switched to a Monolith and Cut Cloud Costs
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
May 9, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Why Amazon Prime Video Cut Costs 90% by Dropping Serverless for a Monolith

A Prime Video case study shows that moving from a costly serverless micro‑service architecture to a streamlined monolith on EC2/ECS reduced infrastructure expenses by over 90% while improving scalability, sparking a heated debate about the true value of microservices and serverless in large‑scale video streaming.

AWSServerlesscloud architecture
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Why Amazon Prime Video Cut Costs 90% by Dropping Serverless for a Monolith
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 28, 2023 · Big Data

Big Data Challenges and Serverless Data Solutions: Insights from an AWS Data Architect

The article examines the evolution of big‑data technologies, outlines the operational, cost and security challenges enterprises face, and presents serverless data—particularly AWS’s cloud‑native services—as a scalable, low‑cost solution that eliminates maintenance while enabling real‑time processing and advanced analytics.

AWSBig DataCloud Computing
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Big Data Challenges and Serverless Data Solutions: Insights from an AWS Data Architect
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 18, 2023 · Backend Development

James Gosling Unveils Java’s Crucial Role at AWS and His Functional‑Programming Secrets

In a reClojure 2022 keynote, Java’s creator James Gosling discussed how Java underpins AWS’s core services, the massive team optimizing its garbage collection, his love for functional programming, the challenges of turning research into practice, and his confidence in Oracle’s current stewardship of the language.

AWSFunctional ProgrammingGarbage Collection
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James Gosling Unveils Java’s Crucial Role at AWS and His Functional‑Programming Secrets
Huolala Tech
Huolala Tech
Dec 1, 2022 · Cloud Computing

How to Master Spot Instances for Cost‑Effective Cloud Scaling

This article explains what Spot (preemptible) instances are, compares them with on‑demand and reserved instances, details AWS Spot pricing and signals, and provides practical strategies—including node‑group design, Kubernetes scheduling, health checks, and rollback plans—to reliably reduce cloud costs while maintaining application availability.

AWSCloud Computingcost optimization
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How to Master Spot Instances for Cost‑Effective Cloud Scaling
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 1, 2022 · Cloud Computing

How Netflix Engineers Seamless Streaming with Cloud‑Based Encoding and CDN

Netflix delivers billions of hours of video by compressing and transcoding raw movies into multiple formats, splitting them into small chunks processed in parallel on AWS, storing them in S3, and distributing them via its custom Open Connect CDN to ensure low‑latency, high‑quality playback worldwide.

AWSCDNCloud
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How Netflix Engineers Seamless Streaming with Cloud‑Based Encoding and CDN
ITPUB
ITPUB
Oct 23, 2022 · Databases

Databases vs Data Warehouses vs Data Lakes vs Lake Houses: Key Differences

The article explains the fundamental concepts and distinctions among databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, describes how each serves transactional or analytical workloads, introduces the emerging lake‑house architecture that integrates lake and warehouse capabilities, and outlines AWS services such as S3, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, Redshift Spectrum that enable these solutions.

AWSDatabaseslake house
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Databases vs Data Warehouses vs Data Lakes vs Lake Houses: Key Differences
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Oct 21, 2022 · Big Data

How Hulu Scales Spark on Kubernetes: Cloud‑Native Big Data at Disney‑Scale

Hulu’s data platform team describes how they migrated large‑scale Spark workloads from Yarn to native Spark on Kubernetes, leveraging AWS services such as EKS, S3, and custom operators to achieve dynamic scaling, unified monitoring, cost‑effective resource management, and improved stability for search, recommendation, and advertising pipelines.

AWSBig DataCloud Native
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How Hulu Scales Spark on Kubernetes: Cloud‑Native Big Data at Disney‑Scale
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Sep 15, 2022 · Big Data

Amazon Real-Time Data Warehouse Architecture and Services Overview

This article reviews the evolution of data warehouse architectures, explains Amazon's serverless real-time data lake design and its key services, and details Amazon Redshift's cloud-native real-time data warehouse features, streaming ingestion, and integrated machine learning capabilities.

AWSAmazon RedshiftBig Data
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Amazon Real-Time Data Warehouse Architecture and Services Overview
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Aug 23, 2022 · Cloud Computing

How Switching S3 Compression to Zstd Cut Storage Costs by 30%

AWS switched S3 log compression from gzip to Zstandard, saving roughly 30% of storage space—equivalent to exabytes—by changing the internal storage method, a move confirmed by employee comments and a coinciding 31% price drop in late 2021.

AWSS3ZSTD
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How Switching S3 Compression to Zstd Cut Storage Costs by 30%
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Aug 5, 2022 · Big Data

Innovative Marketing Practices on the Cloud: How an Intelligent Data Lake Enables Flexible and Efficient Marketing Capabilities

The presentation details how Amazon Web Services’ intelligent data lake architecture integrates big data and machine learning to overcome marketing challenges, improve data governance, and provide scalable, real‑time analytics for personalized, data‑driven marketing across enterprises.

AWSBig DataCloud Computing
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Innovative Marketing Practices on the Cloud: How an Intelligent Data Lake Enables Flexible and Efficient Marketing Capabilities
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Aug 1, 2022 · Big Data

Understanding Data Lakes: Concepts, Features, Architectures, and Vendor Solutions

This article provides a comprehensive overview of data lakes, explaining their definition, key characteristics, architectural evolution, and detailed comparisons of major cloud providers' solutions, while also presenting typical use cases, construction processes, and future development directions for this emerging big‑data infrastructure.

AWSAlibaba CloudAzure
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Understanding Data Lakes: Concepts, Features, Architectures, and Vendor Solutions
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Jul 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

LifeMiles Cuts Infrastructure Spend by 50% and Doubles Available Resources with Kubernetes

The case study describes how LifeMiles migrated its legacy monolithic system to AWS and adopted Kubernetes for container orchestration, achieving a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs, a three‑fold increase in deployment frequency, and a doubling of usable resources while dramatically shortening time‑to‑market.

AWSCloud Nativecost reduction
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LifeMiles Cuts Infrastructure Spend by 50% and Doubles Available Resources with Kubernetes
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Jul 4, 2022 · Cloud Computing

The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Cost Optimization

This guide explains why cloud cost optimization is essential, shares real‑world savings from companies like Pinterest, Zoom and Spotify, and provides practical steps—including bill analysis, right‑sizing, Spot instance usage, reserved capacity planning, and automation tools—to help organizations reduce cloud expenses and improve financial predictability.

AWSCloud Cost Optimizationbudgeting
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The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Cost Optimization
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jul 2, 2022 · Operations

Understanding AWS-Enabled DevOps Practices and Key CI/CD Tools

This article explains the DevOps methodology in the context of AWS, defines its relationship to cloud operations, and introduces three core AWS CI/CD services—CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild—detailing their features and benefits for accelerating software delivery.

AWSCI/CDCodeBuild
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Understanding AWS-Enabled DevOps Practices and Key CI/CD Tools
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Apr 14, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Migrating Ctrip Hotel Search Engine to AWS: Challenges and Practices

This article details Ctrip's experience migrating its high‑traffic hotel search service to AWS, covering microservice architecture challenges, API‑level deployment, persistence strategies with Redis, MySQL, XPipe and DRC, file sharing via S3, and lessons learned for future cloud‑native designs.

AWSPersistenceSearch Engine
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Migrating Ctrip Hotel Search Engine to AWS: Challenges and Practices
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Mar 22, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Avoid Serverless Pitfalls: Key Anti‑Patterns and Proven Design Patterns

This article examines common serverless anti‑patterns such as monolithic Lambdas, orchestration misuse, Lambda‑to‑Lambda calls, and event loops, and presents practical design patterns—including Command, Messaging, Priority Queue, Fan‑out, and Pipe‑Filter—to help architects build scalable, maintainable, and cost‑effective cloud applications.

AWSAnti-patternsLambda
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Avoid Serverless Pitfalls: Key Anti‑Patterns and Proven Design Patterns
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Mar 15, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Qovery Automates Hundreds of Production‑Ready Kubernetes Clusters

Deploying and managing hundreds of production‑ready Kubernetes clusters is complex, but Qovery’s open‑source engine automates provisioning, operation, and upgrades on AWS using Terraform, Helm, and Rust, cutting setup time from days to minutes while ensuring reliability across global workloads.

AWSAutomationCloud Native
0 likes · 5 min read
How Qovery Automates Hundreds of Production‑Ready Kubernetes Clusters
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 22, 2022 · Cloud Computing

How Robots, Sustainability, and Space Computing Will Shape the Next Decade

The article summarizes Amazon Web Services CTO Werner Vogels' vision from re:Invent 2021, highlighting three emerging trends—robotics as a still‑young field, sustainability becoming a core cloud pillar, and computing expanding beyond Earth to edge, satellite and space platforms—while outlining AWS initiatives supporting each direction.

AWSCloud ComputingSpace Computing
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How Robots, Sustainability, and Space Computing Will Shape the Next Decade
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 10, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How Serverless Can Transform SaaS Architecture for Enterprise Customers

This article explores how integrating Serverless into SaaS platforms can simplify operations, improve tenant isolation, reduce costs, and enable scalable multi‑tenant architectures that better serve large enterprises while addressing the challenges faced by both SaaS providers and Serverless services.

AWSMulti‑tenantSaaS
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How Serverless Can Transform SaaS Architecture for Enterprise Customers
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Nov 12, 2021 · Big Data

Understanding Data Lakes: Definitions, Evolution, and Architectural Patterns

The article explains what a data lake is, compares various vendor definitions, outlines its four essential components, describes three evolutionary architecture stages from self‑hosted Hadoop to cloud‑native storage‑compute separation, and discusses the benefits and challenges of adopting data lake solutions in modern big‑data platforms.

AWSData LakeHadoop
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Understanding Data Lakes: Definitions, Evolution, and Architectural Patterns
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Sep 2, 2021 · Cloud Native

Migrating Ctrip Hotel Direct Connect Service to AWS: Cloud‑Native Architecture, Cost and Performance Optimizations

This article details Ctrip’s migration of its hotel direct‑connect service to AWS, describing the background challenges, cloud‑native architectural redesign with EKS, bandwidth and latency optimizations, use of spot instances, DNS caching, cross‑AZ traffic reduction, and the resulting performance and cost benefits.

AWSEKScost optimization
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Migrating Ctrip Hotel Direct Connect Service to AWS: Cloud‑Native Architecture, Cost and Performance Optimizations
ZhiKe AI
ZhiKe AI
Sep 1, 2021 · Cloud Native

Managing an EKS Cluster from an EC2 Node

This guide walks through installing kubectl on an EC2 instance, configuring the kubeconfig to point to a specific Amazon EKS cluster, and verifying the setup by listing cluster nodes, providing all commands and expected outputs.

AWSCluster ConfigurationEC2
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Managing an EKS Cluster from an EC2 Node
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jul 26, 2021 · Big Data

Accelerating Hive Daily Tables with Flink: A SmartNews Case Study

This article describes how SmartNews integrated Flink into its Airflow‑driven Hive batch pipeline to cut the actions table generation latency from three hours to about thirty‑four minutes, detailing the technical challenges, design decisions, and production results.

AWSBig DataFlink
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Accelerating Hive Daily Tables with Flink: A SmartNews Case Study
NetEase Smart Enterprise Tech+
NetEase Smart Enterprise Tech+
May 20, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How AWS Lambda Powers Serverless Apps: A Practical Guide to Cloud Development

This article, based on a live stream by NetEase Cloud Communication backend engineer Ge Xinni, explains the fundamentals of AWS Serverless, details how Lambda integrates with services like API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, and demonstrates building a simple web service, message-driven architectures, and best‑practice considerations.

AWSLambdaServerless
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How AWS Lambda Powers Serverless Apps: A Practical Guide to Cloud Development
Architecture Talk
Architecture Talk
May 6, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How Netflix Scales Global Video Streaming with AWS and Microservices

This article examines Netflix's massive video‑streaming platform, detailing its migration to AWS, micro‑service architecture, client‑backend‑CDN components, playback flow, design goals such as high availability and low latency, trade‑offs, resilience techniques, and scalability mechanisms that support millions of users worldwide.

AWSMicroservicesNetflix architecture
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How Netflix Scales Global Video Streaming with AWS and Microservices
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
May 5, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Analysis of the Cloud Computing Industry: Evolution of AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud

Over more than a decade, the article examines the development of cloud infrastructure, comparing the strategies and product evolution of AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud, and highlights how elastic IT resources, hybrid cloud solutions, AI integration, and scale economies have shaped the competitive landscape of China's cloud computing market.

AIAWSAlibaba Cloud
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Analysis of the Cloud Computing Industry: Evolution of AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 24, 2021 · Cloud Native

9 Proven Strategies to Slash Kubernetes Costs

Learn how to monitor, limit, and optimize Kubernetes expenses with nine practical techniques—including resource constraints, autoscaling, right-sized instances, Spot instances, sleep schedules, regular clean‑ups, and tagging—to dramatically reduce cloud costs while maintaining performance.

AWSResource Managementcost optimization
0 likes · 8 min read
9 Proven Strategies to Slash Kubernetes Costs
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Apr 14, 2021 · Databases

AWS Launches OpenSearch: A True Open‑Source Alternative to Elasticsearch

AWS introduced OpenSearch, an Apache‑licensed, fully open‑source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana that removes commercial restrictions, offers advanced features like security and machine‑learning, and promises seamless migration for existing users while gaining broad industry support.

AWSElasticsearchOpenSearch
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AWS Launches OpenSearch: A True Open‑Source Alternative to Elasticsearch
Top Architect
Top Architect
Mar 20, 2021 · Backend Development

Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest

This article provides an in‑depth technical overview of how Pinterest scales its distributed cache layer using Memcached and Mcrouter on AWS, covering architecture, performance, high availability, load balancing, trade‑offs, and future directions.

AWSCachingMemcached
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Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Feb 6, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Comprehensive Overview of Cloud Computing: Definitions, Features, Service Models, Deployment Types, History, and Market Landscape

This article provides a comprehensive overview of cloud computing, covering its definition, key characteristics, service and deployment models, historical development stages, comparative analysis of the US and Chinese markets, major business models, and the competitive landscape of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers.

AWSAzureIaaS
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Comprehensive Overview of Cloud Computing: Definitions, Features, Service Models, Deployment Types, History, and Market Landscape
Top Architect
Top Architect
Feb 4, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Typical Serverless Architecture on AWS: Best Practices and Component Overview

This article presents a comprehensive guide to building a robust, fully managed serverless web application on AWS, covering the selection of services, micro‑service design, event‑driven communication, front‑end integration, security, monitoring, and cost‑effective best practices.

AWSCloudWatchEventBridge
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Typical Serverless Architecture on AWS: Best Practices and Component Overview
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Jan 26, 2021 · Backend Development

Engineering the Bifrost WebSocket Gateway at Postman: Architecture, Scaling, and Lessons Learned

The article recounts how Postman's Service Foundation team identified the limitations of the monolithic Sync service, designed and built the Bifrost WebSocket gateway using Fastify, AWS ElastiCache for Redis, and a private API, and scaled it through horizontal expansion and custom load‑factor metrics while sharing practical engineering insights.

AWSFastifyMicroservices
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Engineering the Bifrost WebSocket Gateway at Postman: Architecture, Scaling, and Lessons Learned
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 25, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy

The article chronicles how the fast‑growing startup Meddy transformed its monolithic AWS setup by adopting managed services such as RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticsearch, Application Load Balancer, serverless Lambdas, ElastiCache, and Grafana Loki to achieve scalable, reliable, and observable cloud infrastructure.

AWSLoggingServerless
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Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 25, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Why Is AWS Forking Elasticsearch After Elastic’s License Shift?

The article explains Elastic's switch to SSPL/Elastic License for Elasticsearch and Kibana, Logz.io's criticism, AWS's fork under Apache 2.0, and the broader open‑source licensing battle between cloud providers and the original vendor.

AWSCloud ServicesElasticsearch
0 likes · 4 min read
Why Is AWS Forking Elasticsearch After Elastic’s License Shift?
Top Architect
Top Architect
Nov 9, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Design Analysis of Netflix's Cloud‑Based Microservices Architecture

This article examines how Netflix migrated its video‑streaming platform to AWS, adopted a microservices architecture, and built a global CDN, detailing the system’s components, design goals such as high availability, low latency and scalability, and the trade‑offs and resilience techniques employed.

AWSNetflixStreaming
0 likes · 23 min read
Design Analysis of Netflix's Cloud‑Based Microservices Architecture
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Oct 29, 2020 · Big Data

Building a Large-Scale Near Real-Time Data Analytics Platform at Lyft Using Apache Flink

Lyft transformed its legacy data pipeline by designing a cloud‑native, Flink‑based near real‑time analytics platform that ingests billions of events, writes Parquet files to S3, leverages Presto for interactive queries, and implements multi‑stage non‑blocking ETL, fault‑tolerant back‑fill, and extensive performance optimizations.

AWSData LakeETL
0 likes · 12 min read
Building a Large-Scale Near Real-Time Data Analytics Platform at Lyft Using Apache Flink
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Oct 25, 2020 · Operations

Deploying Jenkins on AWS with Terraform for CI/CD

This tutorial explains how to automate CI/CD by installing Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance using Terraform, covering prerequisites, Bash installation scripts, plugin setup, a sample pipeline job, Terraform variable definitions, resource provisioning, and accessing the Jenkins web interface.

AWSAutomationCI/CD
0 likes · 10 min read
Deploying Jenkins on AWS with Terraform for CI/CD
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Oct 16, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Mastering AWS Lambda: Build a Serverless Order Service with Serverless Framework

This article walks you through the fundamentals of serverless architecture, demonstrates how to create and configure AWS Lambda functions for an order‑processing workflow, integrates them with API Gateway, SQS, and the Serverless Framework, and shows how to test, deploy, and clean up the entire solution.

AWSAWS LambdaCloud Computing
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Mastering AWS Lambda: Build a Serverless Order Service with Serverless Framework
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 30, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Tracing the Roots of Cloud Computing: From ENIAC to AWS

This article chronicles the evolution of cloud computing, beginning with early mainframe concepts like ENIAC and time‑sharing, through the emergence of utility and grid computing, and culminating in the commercial breakthroughs of Amazon Web Services and Google’s cloud initiatives.

AWSCloud ComputingGoogle
0 likes · 12 min read
Tracing the Roots of Cloud Computing: From ENIAC to AWS
GrowingIO Tech Team
GrowingIO Tech Team
Aug 27, 2020 · Cloud Computing

How GrowingIO Cut AWS Costs: Practical Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

This article details GrowingIO's systematic approach to reducing AWS expenses by analyzing billing data, tagging resources, visualizing usage, and applying targeted optimizations across EC2 instances, EBS volumes, HDFS storage, network traffic, and S3, while outlining future automation and scaling plans.

AWSCloud ComputingEBS
0 likes · 14 min read
How GrowingIO Cut AWS Costs: Practical Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
Top Architect
Top Architect
Aug 1, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Design Analysis of Netflix’s Cloud‑Based Microservices Architecture

This article examines Netflix’s cloud‑based microservices architecture, detailing its client, backend, CDN components, design goals such as high availability, low latency, scalability, and the trade‑offs, resilience mechanisms, and scalability strategies employed on AWS to support millions of global streaming users.

AWSHigh AvailabilityMicroservices
0 likes · 22 min read
Design Analysis of Netflix’s Cloud‑Based Microservices Architecture
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jul 30, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Design Analysis of Netflix’s Cloud‑Based Microservices Architecture

The article examines Netflix’s migration to AWS and its micro‑service‑based cloud architecture, detailing client, backend, and CDN components, the design goals of high availability, low latency, scalability, and resilience, and how these goals are achieved through services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Zuul, Hystrix, and Open Connect.

AWSCloud ComputingHigh Availability
0 likes · 25 min read
Design Analysis of Netflix’s Cloud‑Based Microservices Architecture
21CTO
21CTO
Jul 8, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How AWS CodeGuru Uses AI to Automate Code Reviews and Boost Performance

AWS CodeGuru, an AI‑driven code review service, automatically analyzes code in GitHub or Bitbucket, offers performance and error suggestions, and helps large teams maintain high‑quality software without the overhead of manual reviews.

AIAWSCodeGuru
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How AWS CodeGuru Uses AI to Automate Code Reviews and Boost Performance
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Apr 30, 2020 · Operations

Amazon’s 2020 Shareholder Letter: Pandemic Response, Employee Safety, and Operational Challenges

The 2020 Amazon shareholder letter, authored by Jeff Bezos, shifts focus from typical business reviews to detailed pandemic‑related measures, highlighting employee protection initiatives, logistical adaptations, AWS’s role in COVID‑19 response, and rising employee unrest over safety and compensation.

AWSAmazonCorporateManagement
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Amazon’s 2020 Shareholder Letter: Pandemic Response, Employee Safety, and Operational Challenges