Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. With fixed hardware it’s easy to construct a linked list that will stay in L1, or will always require a trip to L2, or will always require a trip to main memory. One benchmark I wrote measured the L2 cache latency. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

Ecommerce 123

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

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 164

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164