All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support. We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business.

Ecommerce 206

Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 206

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

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Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 245

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. A Decomposition Storage Model , George P. Copeland and Setrag N.

Storage 72

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 72

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

Servers 111

Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. . --> Remember the original VMware x86 hypervisor from 1998?

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52