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How Amazon Prime Video Delivers 99.999% Availability While Reducing Costs

Rafal Gancarz — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:30:00 GMT

Amazon Prime Video created a highly available live video streaming architecture by combining redundant components to achieve the five-nines of availability that they require for their platform. The company optimized the deployment topology and video encoding to reduce costs while ensuring optimal video quality for users.

By Rafal Gancarz

Nomura Leverages HashiCorp Consul for Microservices Discovery on AWS EC2

Rafal Gancarz — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:00:00 GMT

With the help of AWS and HashiCorp consultants, Nomura created a solution for service discovery for complex microservices environments. The solution leverages HashiCorp Consul and is based on a hierarchical, rule-based algorithm. It supports discovery by service name, DNS latency, and custom tags.

By Rafal Gancarz