Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. The Xbox 360 CPU had three PowerPC cores and a 1 MB L2 cache and these features are clearly visible on the wafer. I used to know what the visible elements of the CPU cores were (L1 caches? To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

ISPs do cache DNS however which means if your first provider goes down it will still try to query the first DNS server for a period of time before querying for the second one. But remember, ISPs also cache the DNS so by setting a longer TTL it means fewer queries to your DNS servers. So DNS services definitely go down!

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162