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Pinterest Engineering

Pinterest engineers describe their experiences managing network throttling issues on AWS EC2 instances, particularly during data migration and bulk ingestion processes. They explain how they identified the challenges, developed network performance monitoring tools, and implemented techniques like fine-grained rate limiting and network compression to mitigate these issues, enhancing the reliability and performance of their critical workloads.

Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest

Network Performance Monitoring via ENA Metrics