All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. With the AWS based system, Exatype can do this at a fraction of the cost. We are actively working to open additional Regions in the locations where our customers need them most. We have a long history in South Africa.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops. Since then, we have produced 4 versions of our checklist — in 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2020. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

Automotive 144

Automotive Website Social Media Design 144

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Open Source 114

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 114

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. They have been in operation since 2004 and have a long history of providing solid free DNS hosting. What is DNS? They even have cPanel/WHM integration.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. We have also made significant improvements to our software by optimizing our storage engine, replication system and various other internal components. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. Comments ().

Ecommerce 119

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The paper describing Tor is also very interesting from a practitioners as it deals with the system complexities of implementing the router at scale. Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router , Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson, in Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2004.' Goldschlag, Michael G.

Network 69

Network Technology Technology Systems 69

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 25, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon days, I already wrote a blog post about the fundamental publications in the area of epidemics, so this seems like a good moment to revisit that with updated links, etc. reliable and scalable distributed systems.

Database 70

Database Scalability C++ Systems 70

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006). As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects. I was living in Sydney, Australia.

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. Developers who are automating business systems have to determine where humans belong in the loop.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2004: Green Day, American Idiot. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life."

Traffic 71

Traffic Scalability Systems 71

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Drupal has a rich and extendable permission system.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

C++ 82

C++ Programming Code Testing 82

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 9, 2020

IEEE Computer Nov/Dec 2004. Last time out we looked at some of the difficulties inherit in automating control systems. Written in 2004, the ideas remind me very much of Mark Burgess’ promise theory , which was also initially developed around the same time. With thanks to Thomas Depierre for the paper suggestion.

Government 43

Government Systems Processing Monitoring 43

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Randon ASCII

DECEMBER 9, 2018

But, acquiring a critical system lock a few hundred thousand times per second seems dangerous at best. I then used a crude Python script to summarize the data for the processes of interest (and totals for all processes in the system) and got these results for the two segments of the run with -user32 specified. Process destruction (2.3

Processing 53

Processing Traffic Testing Systems 53

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Can you think of a better system that can stay up without losing time initiating failovers when a node fails? Notice the table name numbering order; see how each named shard that is incremented by one is found on the next node. But with Citus, we’ve raised the bar.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall.

Hardware 40

Hardware Games Operating System Software 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

The Face was a culture, fashion, and music magazine published in Britain until 2004 and Brody worked as its art director until 1986. The Face demonstrates how a system for design is the structure on which you start building a design. The Face was a living laboratory where I could experiment and have it published.

Design 117

Design Media Testing Entertainment 117

Testsigma

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. If there is anything that cannot be handled, it is the OS level alerts because Selenium can only handle website related operations.

Testing 42

Testing Testing Tools Website Programming 42

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006) As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects. I was living in Sydney, Australia.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

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. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Choosing 420 subsampling, over the original 444 format, halves the number of samples (counting across all 3 color planes) that need to be encoded while relying on the fact that the human visual system is more sensitive to luma than chroma. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

Code 218

Code Metrics Open Source Efficiency 218

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was created by John Gruber in 2004 with the goal of making writing formatted text in a plain text editor easier. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. This is due to Safari’s questionable tactic of tying browser updates to system updates, as well as hesitancy around updating software for some people who use assistive technology.

Website 134

Website Technology Technology Code 134

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

In his five years as an art director at the aerospace and defence company, Nitsche developed an information design system which resulted in annual reports, posters, technical data, and Dynamic America, a 420-page book tracing the company’s history. But it’s his work for General Dynamics which became his most recognized. Large preview ).

Design 100

Design Media Development Energy 100

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Doing strategy on behalf of a collectively-owned, open system is extremely unusual. 1 realtor.com 66% 2004 296 0.05 1 --> Needless to say, these results are significantly worse than those of responsible JS-centric metaframeworks like Astro or HTML-first systems like Eleventy. Getting paid to do it is almost unheard of.

Strategy 76

Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76