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. Hyrax has developed an AWS based technology called Exatype, which rapidly and accurately tests HIV drug resistance.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? Dynamo might have been the best technology in the world at the time but it was still software you had to run yourself.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL."

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. 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: I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. There’s no question Jamstack is a developer-focused technology. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

To increase capacity, hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are introducing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. But let’s take a quick look at the changing hardware landscape before we go on… The changing hardware landscape.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. 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: I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40