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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

2022428 points247 commentscited by 4Web & Frontend details

The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.

MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database

2024145 points53 comments Databases & Data details

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a database service designed for 11 9s of durability with in-memory performance. In this paper, we describe the architecture of MemoryDB and how we leverage open-source Redis, a popular data structure store, to build an enterprise-grade cloud database. MemoryDB offloads…

Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications

2020141 points16 comments Systems & Performance details

Serverless containers and functions are widely used for deploying and managing software in the cloud. Their popularity is due to reduced cost of operations, improved utilization of hardware, and faster scaling than traditional deployment methods. The economics and scale of serverless applications…