All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. Just like with content delivery networks, DNS hosting providers also have multiple POPs. Their network is made up of over 60 POPs and supports IPv6 everywhere. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS.

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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.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more. I wrote seeksize.d

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency. What’s Next?

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more. I wrote seeksize.d

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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