All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

Programming 98

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup. If you aren't monitoring it, how can you measure it?

Tuning 67

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." If no, please explain why not.

Engineering 112

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Here are the laurels given by the editors: Debuting in November 2008, Amazons entry into the CDN market quickly became a major player. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed.

Media 60

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

Tech, and especially tech services, went counter-cyclical a few months into the last recession (2008). We saw this in the housing bubble, the internet bubble before it, and bubbles going back to the Dutch Tulip trade in the 17th century. That capital, while being deployed now, is still jittery and remains at risk of systemic shock.

Hardware 40

Hardware Internet Internet Mobile 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 75

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 137

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 137

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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