Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Out of the box, MySQL was fine for a decent amount of traffic but would fall over pretty quickly if hit with a sustained burst of traffic. Experienced MySQL admins could tune MySQL to handle the heavy traffic loads for more popular sites.

Open Source 102

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 102

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.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A quick way to fix this is simply by temporarily changing the TTL (time to live) setting for the DNS record, and route your traffic to the second DNS server until the outage is fixed. They have been in operation since 2004 and have a long history of providing solid free DNS hosting. They even have cPanel/WHM integration.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

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. 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.

Ecommerce 123

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. That means, necessarily, that all of the L2 traffic came out through the top of the L2 cache and then made its way to the three different CPUs.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

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.

Scalability 164

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

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. It worked for most TCP traffic types but not others, which I warned about in the script comments.

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139