All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My list stopped in 2007, so now that 2012 is almost at its end it is a good moment to add the next 5 years to the list. 2007: Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. 2007: Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Comments ().

Traffic 72

Traffic Scalability Systems 72

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Some cloud providers also offer specialized instances for database workloads, which may provide additional features and optimizations for performance and scalability.

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. In order to understand THP, we should first start with a brief description of Linux HugePages. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB.

Database 95

Database Servers Open Source C++ 95

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007).

Website 40

Website Scalability Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007).

Programming 40

Programming Website Scalability Design 40

Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 7 Break Amdahl’s Law!

C++ 40

C++ Java Programming Website 40

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Following the 2007-08 financial crisis, Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati and his team analyzed 4,700 public companies to determine which business strategies work for navigating recessions. Calamity lies ahead for companies that still do not know how to measure and optimize the flow of value in a systemic and scalable way.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems. You must understand how to use indexes to make sorting cheaper. Looking at this, can you say which is faster: LIMIT 1 or LIMIT 10 ?

Efficiency 110

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 110

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database.

Open Source 86

Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. What if we could fully embrace the concept of streaming, and redesign system integration from a reactive—asynchronous, non-blocking, scalable, and resilient perspective? Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

To a certain extent, such a high diversity of recommendation techniques is attributed to several implementation challenges like a sparsity of customer ratings, computational scalability, and lack of information on new items and customers. Fisher, 2007. Billsus, 2007. Zapf, 2007. Khan and D. Jain, 2005. Levin, 2013.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. Retrospectives. Lessons learned. Q: What in your background helped you gain a stronger understanding of peak-load readiness?

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). Your app may have populated 100 Gbytes of main memory, but only uses 50 Mbytes each second to do its job.

Cache 62

Cache Latency C++ Programming 62

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Breakaway opportunities tend also to be highly sensitive to non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability and security. Management Leaders Turn Attention to Followers ” The Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. They will change significantly over the course of fulfillment as they become better understood.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). Your app may have populated 100 Gbytes of main memory, but only uses 50 Mbytes each second to do its job.

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. After the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications.

AWS 110

AWS Airlines Latency Games 110

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The godfather of the web performance movement, educator, speaker, the author of the most essential books in the industry, High Performance Websites (which was #1 in Amazon’s Computer and Internet bestsellers in 2007) and Even Faster Websites , and the co-author of Web Performance Daybook Volume 2. Philip Tellis. Philip Tellis.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io. So can we use it as our main datastore? group by a.w, group by a.w,

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40