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How Amazon S3 Stores 350 Trillion Objects with 11 Nines of Durability

ByteByteGo

S3 allows users to store any amount of data at any time, making it a foundational service for industries ranging from media and entertainment to finance and healthcare. Features like encryption (server-side and client-side), bucket policies, IAM roles, and access control lists (ACLs) ensure secure data storage.

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How Instagram Scaled Its Infrastructure To Support a Billion Users

ByteByteGo

Unlike other social media platforms at the time, Instagram focused exclusively on visual storytelling, making it an instant hit among smartphone users. The app was experiencing major scalability challenges, such as server overloads, database scaling issues, and limited engineering resources. 100 million media uploads per day.

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Synology enters enterprise market with ActiveProtect

DCNN Magazine

Cost-effective backup ActiveProtect has been designed to protect everything in a single platform from devices, to Software-as-a-Service programmes, file servers and virtual machines. That is the rule that recommends having three copies of data, two different media and one off-site copy.

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Kentik Virtual Panel Series, Part 2: How Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media Are Supporting Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

As our moderator, Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman was joined by network leaders from Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media, namely: Christian Kaufmann, VP of Network Technology, Akamai. Igor Gashinsky, Chief Network Architect, VP, Verizon Media. Igor from Verizon Media said they’ve observed web traffic growth of about 30 percent.

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Threads has entered the fediverse

Engineering at Meta

As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. People on those servers can now follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from the fediverse.

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Distributed Caching: The Secret to High-Performance Applications

ByteByteGo

With users expecting real-time responses, especially in sectors like e-commerce, finance, gaming, and social media, even a few milliseconds of delay can lead to a poor user experience, potentially impacting customer satisfaction and revenue. The demand for high-speed, high-performance applications has skyrocketed in recent years.

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Included in the withdrawn prefixes were the IP addresses of Facebook’s authoritative DNS servers, rendering them unreachable. which is routed as 129.134.30.0/24 24 and 129.134.30.0/23.

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