All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. Regional isolation.

AWS 109

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 109

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? ” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” So we can ride that wave of publicity.)

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. Here are the laurels given by the editors: Debuting in November 2008, Amazons entry into the CDN market quickly became a major player. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Media 60

Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

After the collapses of 2000 and 2008, governments acted narrowly to save finance, allowing the installation mode and investment mentality to return. A key pattern that is understood by the tech giants, who have mastered the Age of Software, is that of network effects and exponential growth.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. It affects the number of TDS buffers that are sent across the network to SQL Server, and it also impacts the overall processing time for the commands.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Agile Manager

JUNE 21, 2011

Limited tech share offerings to date means limited wealth depletion, a huge benefit given that households are still suffering from excess debt and substantial wealth erosion from 2008 peaks. Tech is still in the throes of a long renaissance with tablets and smartphones (new capabilities) twined with cloud (cheap infrastructure).

Government 40

Government Innovation Network Infrastructure 40