All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Expect the unexpected.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 23, 2018

On any modern operating system each process gets their own virtual memory address space so that the operating system can isolate processes and protect memory. So how can we reconcile Joe’s 2006 statement about the rarity of starvation with my experience of a 100% repeatable and long-running starvation problem?

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Energy data at the entire machine or raw cloud instance level needs to be apportioned to virtual machines or cloud instances which run an operating system, and to pods, containers and processes running applications and background activities that consume CPU, memory and I/O resources.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Web apps allow you to break the traditional constraints of the desktop and mobile operating systems and provide freedom to experiment with different varieties of software. React got popular due to the virtual document object model (DOM) which enables it to enhance performance of web apps and PWA significantly.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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