The article introduces AWS S3 SELECT for in‑object SQL filtering, highlights Aurora's new Multi‑Master and Serverless capabilities, describes DynamoDB's on‑demand backup and Global Tables, and provides a brief overview of the managed graph database Neptune, emphasizing performance and cost benefits.
The AWS re:Invent 2017 conference in Las Vegas introduced a range of compute innovations—including Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, new EC2 instance families, Spot Instance hibernation, Time Sync Service, and a Serverless Application Repository—while showcasing sessions from Netflix and other industry leaders.
This article examines the concepts, strengths, and limitations of Google App Engine and Amazon AWS as Platform‑as‑a‑Service offerings, focusing on their application scenarios, development support, operations management, and associated services, and draws conclusions for game server development.
The article describes the challenges of resource isolation and permission management in a microservice environment, explains AWS IAM concepts and policies, and details the design, development, and expected benefits of the internally built OpenIAM service for unified authentication and authorization across services.
The article explains Netflix's end‑to‑end build and deployment pipeline, detailing how Nebula, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and AWS are combined with a culture of cloud‑native microservices to deliver code from local compilation to immutable AMI‑based releases across regions in about sixteen minutes.
The article analyzes 2017 Q2 earnings, Stack Overflow traffic, language preferences, industry and geographic trends to compare the popularity and growth of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, highlighting AWS's faster growth and Azure's strong presence in certain sectors and regions.
This article explores whether Facebook could be hosted on AWS by estimating Facebook's server count, comparing hardware performance, evaluating software compatibility, and calculating the massive cost implications, ultimately concluding that while technically possible, it would be far more expensive than maintaining its own data centers.
This article details how REA Group implements a comprehensive DevOps workflow for its micro‑service architecture on AWS, covering the 12‑Factor principles, toolchain components, automated deployment with rea‑shipper, monitoring, alerting, and the collaborative processes that enable continuous delivery at scale.
Amazon Aurora separates compute and storage using a service‑centric design, employs a quorum‑based replication across three availability zones, slices data into 10 GB protection groups, and leverages S3‑backed redo logs to deliver MySQL‑compatible performance with rapid recovery and strong consistency.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to register for Amazon AWS, launch a free‑tier EC2 instance with Linux, bind an Elastic IP, set up a MySQL RDS database, and deploy a WordPress site, providing a practical hands‑on learning path for Linux operations and cloud computing.
The article examines public cloud’s cost‑effective benefits and its reliability challenges, citing major outages from AWS, Azure and Alibaba Cloud, and advises both providers and users to adopt multi‑cloud, backup, and disaster‑recovery strategies for safer cloud adoption.
The article shares a comprehensive recap of AWS re:Invent 2016, highlighting over a thousand new features across compute, storage, networking, security and tools, discussing serverless concepts, the Modern Data Architecture framework, and practical lessons learned by the English‑Fluent‑Talk engineering team.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to set up an AWS Tokyo VM, install Git and Ansible, clone microservice lifecycle and bookstore repositories, configure Vagrant, build Docker images, run tests with docker‑compose, and push the resulting images to a private registry.
This article explains how to set up Dockerized hosts using Docker‑Machine on Windows, covers driver options, environment configuration, and demonstrates building, publishing, and running a .NET Core application in containers on both local and cloud platforms.
This article details Medium’s evolution from its initial AWS‑based backend stack to a sophisticated, service‑oriented architecture that leverages Node.js, Go, DynamoDB, Redis, Aurora, Neo4j, Spark, and CI/CD pipelines to support millions of users.
500px handles massive image uploads and billions of daily views by leveraging a Go‑based microservice architecture on AWS, using Nginx, HAProxy, RabbitMQ, and VIPS to achieve up to 1000 requests per second with sub‑180 ms response times.
Airbnb’s engineering VP Mike Curtis explains how the company leverages Amazon Web Services, a Hadoop‑based big‑data platform, and custom tools like Aerosolve, Airflow, and Airpal to power its global marketplace, enabling rapid scaling, dynamic pricing, and personalized search through extensive cloud infrastructure and machine‑learning pipelines.
This guide walks you through creating an AWS EC2 instance, installing and configuring Squid as a proxy, restarting the service, setting up local proxy settings, and securing the connection with an SSH tunnel for encrypted traffic.
The article reviews the evolution of the public cloud market, highlights Amazon AWS as the dominant player, discusses notable provider outages such as Nirvanix and AWS incidents, and offers guidance for enterprises on multi‑cloud strategies, data redundancy, and provider responsibilities.
The article analyzes why stability, not raw performance, should be the primary criterion when choosing a cloud provider, describes a 7‑day benchmark across AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and UCloud, and presents detailed results for CPU, memory, disk, database and storage stability.
Using Apache JMeter, this study objectively benchmarks hot object storage performance (RT and TPS) and pricing across five major cloud vendors—AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Qiniu, and Huawei—evaluating download/upload speeds for various file sizes and calculating a performance‑to‑price ratio to guide optimal provider selection.
This article presents a systematic performance and cost‑effectiveness comparison of six major cloud object‑storage providers—AWS, Azure, Qiniu, Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Kingsoft Cloud—using JMeter‑driven upload/download tests across various file sizes and analyzing price data to rank their overall value.
This article explains how Netflix leverages Amazon S3 and Elastic MapReduce to build a virtually unlimited, dynamically scalable Hadoop data warehouse in the cloud, and introduces Genie—a Hadoop platform‑as‑a‑service that abstracts job submission, resource management, and cluster orchestration.
Airbnb leverages AWS, Hadoop, Presto, Airflow, and custom machine‑learning tools to power its global marketplace, optimizing search, pricing, and data pipelines while achieving significant cost savings and operational efficiency.
This article shares two real‑world operations‑automation case studies—cloud‑based scaling on AWS with Chef and Jenkins, and a comprehensive automated deployment workflow for an advertising company's C++ RTB system, Java platform, and data clusters—highlighting processes, tools, and key lessons.
The article describes how a mobile analytics service processes billions of events daily using a Lambda‑style architecture that combines Kafka, Storm, Amazon EMR, and S3 to achieve scalable, fault‑tolerant batch and real‑time computation, while ensuring reliable event ingestion and graceful degradation.
This article describes how a legacy .NET contract management system was transformed into a set of independent microservices using a strategic decoupling approach, explains microservice fundamentals and advantages, and introduces the Ruby‑based Stencil framework with code generation, CI templates, and one‑click AWS deployment to accelerate development and operations.
