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 110

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. We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team.

Ecommerce 119

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. I had tried this in 2004 ([socketsnoop.d]) and published it as open source, but my tool was incomplete: I didn't have access to the kernel source code so I had to figure out everything the hard way using black box analysis.

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Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139

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. blog comments powered by Disqus.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. I had tried this in 2004 ([socketsnoop.d]) and published it as open source, but my tool was incomplete: I didn't have access to the kernel source code so I had to figure out everything the hard way using black box analysis.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40