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Fetched June 8th, 2026
AWS

Building a scalable user search layer on top of Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito lacks native search capabilities, making it difficult to build scalable user discovery and search features in applications.

search databases
3 min
AWS

Building highly available Oracle databases with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Building Oracle database architectures that minimize recovery time and maximize availability while leveraging cloud infrastructure.

databases storage-systems
4 min
Netflix

Dynamic Repartitioning for Time Series Workloads

Netflix needed to efficiently partition and scale time series data across Cassandra clusters to handle petabytes of temporal event data while maintaining millisecond latency query performance.

distributed-systems storage-systems
5 min

Fetched June 1st, 2026
Netflix

High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I

Netflix needed a unified abstraction layer to efficiently handle multiple graph query paradigms (OLAP and OLTP) with different performance and functionality requirements across diverse business use cases.

distributed-systems databases
5 min