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Expand Up @@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ of data. In addition there were a number of trends in the company which presaged
increase in metric volume:

* Rolling pushes to [Red/Black deployments](http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/06/asgard-web-based-cloud-management-and.html).
* Leveraging [auto-scaling for large clusters](http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/01/auto-scaling-in-amazon-cloud.html).
Netflix has always used auto-scaling groups in AWS, but initially most were configured with fixed
size and just used as a group and to replace instances.
* Expansion internationally into [Latin America](http://blog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-is-coming-to-latin-america.html)
and [Europe](http://ukirelandblog.netflix.com/2012_01_01_archive.html). This led to an increase
* Leveraging auto-scaling for large clusters. Netflix has always used auto-scaling groups in AWS,
but initially most were configured with fixed size and just used as a group and to replace
instances.
* Expansion internationally into Latin America and Europe. This led to an increase
in the number of countries being tracked for key metrics and for Europe it was the first move
into additional AWS regions. With additional regions we also wanted to have better isolation so
a problem with monitoring in one region would not impact another, but at the same time have
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These projects were originally developed and run internally and thus only needed to be setup by our
team and assume many internal infrastructure pieces to run. There is a goal to try and make this
easier, but it will take some time.
easier, but it will take some time.