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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

15 years is a long time in the world of technology. When we took a hard look at our storage for the Amazon ecommerce web site in 2005, we realized that the majority of our data needed an object (or key-value) store. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

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It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

But end users kept complaining about slow applications, and despite increasing costs and control over networks, the baseline of end user experience wasn’t available. Application availability and performance measured using network probe technology. Technology developments come in waves. ” The AppMon wave.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up. But this would be no ordinary project.

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Making A Strong Case For Accessibility

Smashing Magazine

The British Standards Institution (2005) defines inclusive design as : “The design of mainstream products and/or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. If you switched to a lighter blue or white font within the 4.5

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.