2008 Hardware Storage 
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.
The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.
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All Things Distributed
AUGUST 24, 2012
The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 In 1997 Jim revisted his caculations with the help of Goetz Graefe , and it details the impact of 10 years of hardware and pricing progress. Goetz Graefe, ACM Queue 6(4): 40-52 (2008). . | Permalink. Comments ().
Adrian Cockcroft
JANUARY 27, 2025
We had some fun getting hardware figured out, and I used a 3D printer to make some cases, but the whole project was interrupted by the delivery of the iPhone by Apple in late 2007. In September 2008 Netflix ran an internal hack day event. They were about to launch a public API and wanted internal teams to try it out before launch.
All Things Distributed
MAY 8, 2012
of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. License Includedâ??
O'Reilly
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Cloud computing? ” scenarios at industrial scale.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 5, 2012
Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. Moving to AWS has enabled us with operational agility to deliver more value to those customers without having to worry about scale and infrastructure maintenance.
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