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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. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

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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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. You can't make this stuff up. DTraceToolkit v0.96

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. Consider for a moment a software system for a hospital emergency room. How do we integrate these two systems?

Network 98
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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. All Things Distributed. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

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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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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. And there is such a strategy — though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who haven’t spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.