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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

After Zynga, he rejoined Amazon, and was the General Manager (GM) for Compute services at AWS, and later chief of staff, and advisor to AWS executives like Charlie Bell and Andy Jassy (Amazon’s current CEO.) The AWS re:invent conference in 2022 hosted a good in-depth overview of Amazon’s COE process.

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Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Jia Zhan, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest Sachin Holla, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Summary Pinterest is a visual search engine and powers over 550 million monthly active users globally. Pinterests infrastructure runs on AWS and leverages Amazon EC2 instances for its compute fleet. 4xl with up to 12.5 4xl with up to 12.5

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Byte Down: Making Netflix’s Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective

Netflix Tech

By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

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Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR…

Towards Data Science

Image from Unsplash Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR Serverless Using OpenAI’s Clip model to support natural language search on a collection of 70k book covers In a previous post I did a little PoC to see if I could use OpenAI’s Clip model to build a semantic book search.

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Improving Efficiency Of Goku Time Series Database at Pinterest (Part?—?1)

Pinterest Engineering

data before the last 2 hours, since GokuS allows only 2 hours of backfill old data in most cases), it stores a copy of the finalized data on AWS EFS (deep persistent storage). It also asynchronously logs the latest data points onto AWS EFS. Figure 10: compaction read and write bytes showing non zero values as soon as host starts up.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

Netflix Tech

Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. That is, all mounted files that were opened and every single byte range read that MezzFS received. Finally, MezzFS will record various statistics about the mount, including: total bytes downloaded, total bytes read, total time spent reading, etc. Regional caching? —?Netflix

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Separating debug symbols from executables

Tweag

rwxr-xr-x 1 jherland users 31560 Jan 1 00:00 hello.with-g We can see that the debug symbols add an extra (31560 - 8280 =) 23280 bytes (or almost 300%) to the final executable. gnu_debuglink ) has been added, and comparing the file sizes we see that this costs a modest 96 bytes. compared to hello.default ). What is removed?

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