All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course!

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Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up.

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Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. This was not our technology vendorsâ??

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. Ah-hah – this must be the internal project! But this would be no ordinary project.

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Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139