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Improving Video Encoding System Efficiency @Netflix

Susie Xia discusses the video encoding system used by Netflix, and the tools and techniques used to analyze performance and to improve the system efficiency.

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Essential Complexity in Systems Architecture

Laura Nolan looks at some real distributed system architectures and examines the tradeoffs made, showing how simple systems can create complex and difficult to understand behaviors.

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Accelerating Deep Learning on the JVM with Apache Spark and NVIDIA GPUs

In this article, authors discuss how to use the combination of Deep Java Learning (DJL), Apache Spark v3, and NVIDIA GPU computing to simplify deep learning pipelines while improving performance and reducing costs. They also show the performance comparison of this solution with GPU vs CPU hardware, using Amazon EMR and NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator.

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Robin Hills on Emotional Intelligence and Building on your Strengths

Shane Hastie spoke to Robin Hills about the importance of emotional intelligence in life and at work, building on your strengths rather than focusing on weaknesses and the value of purpose to enable resilience

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Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act Framework to Produce Performant and Highly Available Systems

The PDCA (plan-do-check-act) framework can be used to outline the performance, availability, and monitoring to enable teams to ensure performant and highly available applications. These include infrastructure design and setup, application architecture and design, coding, performance testing, and application monitoring.

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Understanding Serverless: Tips and Resources for Building Servicefull Applications

There are still many misconceptions and concerns regarding serverless solutions. Vendor lock-in, tooling, cost management, cold starts, monitoring and the development lifecycle are all hot topics where serverless technologies are concerned. This article shares tips and resources to guide serverless newcomers towards building powerful, flexible and cost-effective serverless applications.

Christopher Paton
on Jul 08, 2019 1
Architecture & Design

A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core & Random Slicing

This fall, Wallaroo Labs will be releasing a large new feature set to our distributed data stream processing framework, Wallaroo. One of the new features requires a size-adjustable, distributed data structure to support growing & shrinking of compute clusters. It might be a good idea to use a distributed hash table to support the new feature, but what distributed hash algorithm should we choose?

Scott Lystig Fritchie
on Aug 26, 2018

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