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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.

AmoroApache IcebergFlink
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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.

Microservicesarchitectureaws
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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.

DevOpsInterviewKubernetes
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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.

Backend ArchitectureServerlessaws
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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.

Cloud ComputingMicroservicesMonolith Architecture
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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.

Serverlessawscloud 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.

Big DataCloud ComputingServerless
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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.

Functional ProgrammingGarbage CollectionJames Gosling
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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.

Cloud ComputingKubernetesaws
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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.

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

Big DataCloud NativeKubernetes
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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.

Amazon RedshiftBig DataReal-time Data Warehouse
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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.

S3awscloud storage
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How Switching S3 Compression to Zstd Cut Storage Costs by 30%
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Aug 17, 2022 · Cloud Native

Building a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Testing and Deploying Apache Airflow DAGs to Amazon MWAA

This guide explains how to create a robust GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow that automatically tests Apache Airflow DAGs using pytest, flake8, and Black, then securely deploys them to Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) with optional Git hooks and fork‑and‑pull collaboration models.

Apache AirflowDataOpsDevOps
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Building a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Testing and Deploying Apache Airflow DAGs to Amazon MWAA
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.

Big DataCloud ComputingMachine Learning
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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.

Alibaba CloudAzureBig Data
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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.

Cloud NativeCost ReductionDevOps
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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.

Cloud Cost Optimizationawsbudgeting
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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.

CodeBuildCodeCommitCodePipeline
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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.

Persistenceawssearch 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.

Anti-PatternsDesign PatternsLambda
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Avoid Serverless Pitfalls: Key Anti‑Patterns and Proven Design Patterns
DeWu Technology
DeWu Technology
Mar 16, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Shuffle Sharding for Mitigating Noisy Neighbor in Multi‑Tenant Cloud Systems

Shuffle sharding assigns each tenant a random small subset of nodes, dramatically lowering the chance that a noisy‑neighbor tenant shares resources with many others, thus providing isolation, elasticity and cost‑effective scaling in multi‑tenant cloud systems like AWS HyperPlane.

Cloud ComputingMulti‑tenantNoisy Neighbor
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Shuffle Sharding for Mitigating Noisy Neighbor in Multi‑Tenant Cloud Systems
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.

Cloud NativeKubernetesRust
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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.

Cloud ComputingSpace Computingaws
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How Robots, Sustainability, and Space Computing Will Shape the Next Decade
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Jan 5, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Commercial Open Source: History, Licensing Wars, and the Cloud Conflict

The article traces the evolution of commercial open‑source companies, examines recent licensing battles sparked by Amazon’s Elasticsearch service and MongoDB’s license change, and analyzes how these tensions reshape software development, investment, and delivery in the era of public cloud dominance.

Business ModelsCloud ComputingLicensing
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Commercial Open Source: History, Licensing Wars, and the Cloud Conflict
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.

Multi‑tenantSaaSScalability
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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.

Hadooparchitectureaws
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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.

EKSKubernetesPerformance
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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.

Cluster ConfigurationEC2EKS
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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.

Big DataFlinkHive
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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.

LambdaServerlessaws
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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.

MicroservicesNetflix architectureScalability
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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.

AIAlibaba CloudAzure
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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.

KubernetesResource Managementaws
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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.

ElasticsearchOpenSearchOpenSource
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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.

CachingDistributed SystemsMemcached
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Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest
Top Architect
Top Architect
Feb 9, 2021 · Databases

Migrating PostgreSQL 9.6 to 12.4 with Minimal Downtime at Coffee Meets Bagel

This article describes how Coffee Meets Bagel upgraded a five‑node PostgreSQL 9.6 cluster to version 12.4 on AWS using pglogical logical replication, achieving less than 30 minutes of total downtime while sharing the architecture, migration steps, and lessons learned.

Logical ReplicationPostgreSQLZero Downtime
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Migrating PostgreSQL 9.6 to 12.4 with Minimal Downtime at Coffee Meets Bagel
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.

AzureIaaSPaaS
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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.

CloudWatchEventBridgeLambda
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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.

Backend ArchitectureFastifyMicroservices
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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.

DevOpsServerlessaws
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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.

Cloud ServicesElasticsearchaws
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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.

NetflixStreamingaws
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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.

ETLFlinkParquet
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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.

DevOpsJenkinsautomation
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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.

AWS LambdaCloud ComputingNode.js
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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.

Cloud ComputingGoogleVirtualization
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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.

Cloud ComputingEBSEC2
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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.

MicroservicesNetflixScalability
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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.

Cloud ComputingNetflixaws
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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.

AICode ReviewCodeGuru
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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.

AmazonCorporateManagementEmployeeSafety
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Amazon’s 2020 Shareholder Letter: Pandemic Response, Employee Safety, and Operational Challenges
ITPUB
ITPUB
Apr 6, 2020 · Big Data

How to Build a Data Lake Quickly: Strategies, Tools, and Real‑World Cases

This article explains the origins and market growth of data lakes, compares them with traditional data warehouses, showcases major implementations like Amazon Galaxy and Club Factory, and provides practical guidance on choosing open‑source or commercial cloud solutions to construct a data lake efficiently while minimizing risk.

Big DataCloud ComputingData Architecture
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How to Build a Data Lake Quickly: Strategies, Tools, and Real‑World Cases
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Feb 16, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Global Cloud Computing Market Overview 2019‑2024: Growth, Provider Comparison, and Spending Trends

An analysis of recent data from Canalys, Synergy Research Group and other sources reveals that the global cloud computing market grew 37.6% to $107.1 billion in 2019, projects continued rapid expansion to $2840 billion by 2024, and compares the performance and strategies of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.

Alibaba CloudAzureGoogle Cloud
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Global Cloud Computing Market Overview 2019‑2024: Growth, Provider Comparison, and Spending Trends
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 15, 2019 · Backend Development

How One Engineer Built a Full‑Featured Podcast Search Engine Solo

This article details how a single engineer created Listen Notes, a podcast search engine and API, by leveraging standard web technologies, AWS infrastructure, Django backend, React frontend, Ansible-driven DevOps, and a suite of monitoring and productivity tools, proving that a solo effort can launch a robust internet product.

DevOpsDjangoReAct
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How One Engineer Built a Full‑Featured Podcast Search Engine Solo
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 9, 2019 · Cloud Computing

How AWS Nitro Redefines Cloud Virtualization for Bare‑Metal Performance and Security

AWS CTO Werner Vogels explained at re:Invent how the Nitro system offloads networking, storage and management to custom hardware, delivering near‑bare‑metal performance, stronger isolation, and a modular architecture that also powers containers, serverless workloads, and next‑generation EC2 instances.

Cloud ComputingNitroServerless
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How AWS Nitro Redefines Cloud Virtualization for Bare‑Metal Performance and Security
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 5, 2019 · Cloud Native

Key Cloud Native Updates: AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, Rancher 2.3.3 & Open‑Source Picks

This roundup highlights major cloud‑native developments, including AWS re:Invent 2019 announcements such as SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes and EKS on Fargate, the 2020 KubeCon Europe schedule, Rancher 2.3.3 release, upstream Kubernetes enhancements, and a curated list of essential open‑source projects and reading recommendations for practitioners.

Containerawscloud-native
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Key Cloud Native Updates: AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, Rancher 2.3.3 & Open‑Source Picks
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Nov 19, 2019 · Blockchain

How Coinbase Builds and Deploys Blockchain Nodes with Snapchain

The article explains Coinbase’s unique security and infrastructure requirements for blockchain nodes, describes the challenges of blue‑green deployments, and details the Snapchain system built on AWS that enables fast, reliable snapshot‑based node provisioning, upgrades, and high‑availability scaling.

BlockchainInfrastructureNode Deployment
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How Coinbase Builds and Deploys Blockchain Nodes with Snapchain
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Oct 29, 2019 · Cloud Computing

How to Achieve AWS Cross‑Region Disaster Recovery with CloudEndure

This guide explains CloudEndure’s features and walks through a step‑by‑step example of configuring AWS cross‑region disaster recovery, covering initial project setup, data replication, test and recovery mode switching, and the failback process, while highlighting networking and security considerations.

Cloud ComputingCloudEndureMigration
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How to Achieve AWS Cross‑Region Disaster Recovery with CloudEndure
NetEase Game Operations Platform
NetEase Game Operations Platform
Jul 19, 2019 · Cloud Computing

Dynamic Scaling Practices for NetEase Game Operations on AWS

The article details NetEase's experience designing and implementing dynamic server scaling for overseas games on AWS, comparing Auto Scaling and GameLift, describing a custom scaling platform, the challenges faced, lessons learned, and future directions for cloud‑based game operations.

AutoscalingCloud ComputingDynamic Scaling
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Dynamic Scaling Practices for NetEase Game Operations on AWS
21CTO
21CTO
Jun 9, 2019 · Cloud Computing

Is AWS Turning Open Source into Proprietary? The Open Distro and SSPL Debate

The article examines AWS's Open Distro for Elasticsearch, critiques its impact on open‑source licensing, discusses aggressive cloud‑provider practices, and explores how the SSPL controversy highlights the need for new standards to protect open‑source innovation.

Cloud ComputingLicensingOpen Source
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Is AWS Turning Open Source into Proprietary? The Open Distro and SSPL Debate
NetEase Game Operations Platform
NetEase Game Operations Platform
May 17, 2019 · Cloud Computing

NetEase Games' AWS Cloud Operations and Practices for Global Game Deployment

This presentation details NetEase Games' journey of moving its mobile titles overseas onto AWS, covering the challenges of performance, elasticity, security and global connectivity, the systematic cloud evaluation framework they built, and the architectural and operational practices they adopted to achieve reliable, cost‑effective worldwide game services.

Cloud Computingawsgame operations
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NetEase Games' AWS Cloud Operations and Practices for Global Game Deployment
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 28, 2019 · Databases

Migrate MySQL to Amazon Aurora: From Simple Snapshots to Zero‑Downtime Strategies

This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for migrating MySQL databases—whether hosted on Amazon RDS or self‑managed servers—to Amazon Aurora, covering four scenarios from simple snapshot migration with downtime to complex minimal‑downtime approaches using read replicas, Percona XtraBackup, and AWS DMS.

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Migrate MySQL to Amazon Aurora: From Simple Snapshots to Zero‑Downtime Strategies
DevOps
DevOps
Apr 14, 2019 · Cloud Native

AWS vs Kubernetes: The New Windows vs Linux Analogy

The article argues that AWS’s relationship to Kubernetes mirrors Windows’s historic dominance over Linux, examining vendor lock‑in, the evolution of cloud services, the economics of scaling, and why enterprises should consider open‑source alternatives and distribution‑based Kubernetes solutions to avoid being trapped.

Cloud NativeKubernetesaws
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AWS vs Kubernetes: The New Windows vs Linux Analogy
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Mar 31, 2019 · Cloud Computing

10 Hard‑Earned AWS Lessons That Shape Modern Cloud Architecture

Reflecting on a decade of AWS, this article shares ten hard‑earned lessons—from building evolvable systems and anticipating failures to prioritizing security, automation, and open platforms—that guide the design, operation, and scaling of cloud services for today’s enterprises.

Cloud ComputingOperationsarchitecture
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10 Hard‑Earned AWS Lessons That Shape Modern Cloud Architecture
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Feb 21, 2019 · Cloud Native

Building a Custom Kubernetes Cluster on AWS for Hybrid‑Cloud Container Deployment at Ctrip

The article describes Ctrip's motivation, design choices, and implementation details for deploying a self‑managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS, covering network architecture with VPC and ENI, custom image distribution, logging and monitoring, data synchronization, and operational challenges such as ELB loopback and kubelet configuration.

Cloud NativeDevOpsKubernetes
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Building a Custom Kubernetes Cluster on AWS for Hybrid‑Cloud Container Deployment at Ctrip
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 13, 2019 · Databases

Why Did MongoDB Switch Licenses and How Is AWS Responding with DocumentDB?

MongoDB changed its open‑source license to the SSPL to curb cloud providers, prompting AWS to launch its own compatible DocumentDB fork, while industry leaders debate the move’s impact on open‑source freedom, developer choice, and MongoDB’s market performance.

DocumentDBLicensingMongoDB
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Why Did MongoDB Switch Licenses and How Is AWS Responding with DocumentDB?
vivo Internet Technology
vivo Internet Technology
Dec 28, 2018 · Big Data

Running a 400+ Node Elasticsearch Cluster: Architecture, Scaling, and Performance Tuning

Meltwater’s media‑monitoring platform runs a custom Elasticsearch 1.7.6 cluster of over 400 nodes on AWS, handling 200 TB of primary data and 3 million daily documents while serving thousands of complex queries per minute, achieved through careful shard design, master‑node configuration, extensive performance tuning, and automated provisioning.

Cluster ManagementElasticsearchJVM
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Running a 400+ Node Elasticsearch Cluster: Architecture, Scaling, and Performance Tuning
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Dec 5, 2018 · Cloud Computing

AWS Outposts: Dispersing the Last Cloud of Private Cloud Skepticism

The article examines AWS Outposts as a hybrid‑cloud solution, arguing that while it brings public‑cloud services to on‑premises data centers, it cannot match the ultra‑high SLA of pure public cloud, and discusses the broader implications of private‑cloud versus public‑cloud dominance in the IT industry.

OutpostsSLAaws
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AWS Outposts: Dispersing the Last Cloud of Private Cloud Skepticism
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 3, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Why Amazon Is Phasing Out Oracle Databases: Inside the Cloud Migration Battle

Amazon is rapidly shifting its enterprise workloads from Oracle's proprietary databases to its own AWS services, planning to retire Oracle software by early 2020, a move that highlights the intensifying competition between the two tech giants and the broader shift toward cloud-native infrastructure.

AmazonIndustry competitionOracle
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Why Amazon Is Phasing Out Oracle Databases: Inside the Cloud Migration Battle
DevOps
DevOps
May 7, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Netflix’s Journey: From DVD Rental to Cloud‑Native Chaos Engineering on AWS

This article chronicles Netflix’s evolution from a DVD‑rental startup to a cloud‑native streaming giant, highlighting its partnership with AWS, the development of chaos‑engineering tools like Chaos Monkey and the Simian Army, and the open‑source technologies that underpin its resilient, scalable architecture.

NetflixResilienceSimian Army
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Netflix’s Journey: From DVD Rental to Cloud‑Native Chaos Engineering on AWS
DevOpsClub
DevOpsClub
May 1, 2018 · Cloud Computing

How Netflix Uses Chaos Monkey and AWS to Build Resilient Cloud Services

The article traces Netflix’s evolution from DVD rentals to a cloud‑native streaming giant, explains how it leverages AWS for massive scale, and details its chaos‑engineering tools—Chaos Monkey, Simian Army, and related monkeys—that continuously test and improve system resilience.

DevOpsNetflixResilience
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How Netflix Uses Chaos Monkey and AWS to Build Resilient Cloud Services
21CTO
21CTO
Apr 16, 2018 · Cloud Native

How AWS Fargate Is Redefining Cloud‑Native Container Deployment

This article explains how AWS Fargate eliminates the need for traditional container orchestration by providing a serverless, pay‑as‑you‑go platform that integrates with Amazon VPC, Auto Scaling, ELB, IAM and compliance standards, reshaping the way developers build and run cloud‑native applications.

AWS FargateCloud NativeContainers
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How AWS Fargate Is Redefining Cloud‑Native Container Deployment
DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach
Apr 1, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Deploy a Production‑Ready Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kops

This step‑by‑step guide shows how to configure Route53 DNS, prepare a VM with required tools, create an S3 state store, provision a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using kops, validate it, expose a sample service, and clean up the resources.

Cloud ComputingDeploymentInfrastructure
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Deploy a Production‑Ready Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kops
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Mar 12, 2018 · Cloud Native

How EVCache Uses Cloud‑Native Architecture for Scalable Distributed Caching

This article explains why distributed caching is essential for large‑scale internet applications, outlines the business and technical benefits of cloud services, and details EVCache’s cloud‑native design, cross‑region replication, high‑availability mechanisms, and real‑world use cases such as Netflix’s recommendation system.

EVCacheNetflixaws
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How EVCache Uses Cloud‑Native Architecture for Scalable Distributed Caching