O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” 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.” This technique simulates interactions in a complex system.

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Comments ().

Innovation 110

Innovation AWS Education Network 110

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2008: Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). 1958: Jerry Lee Lewis, Great Balls of Fire. 1959: Ray Charles, What Id Say.

Traffic 71

Traffic Scalability Systems 71

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

The disruption is not simply the result of a ship running aground and blocking traffic in a busy, narrow passageway. Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. The systemic fragility was as plain as day.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

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. The DataTable can be created multiple ways in the.NET code, but a common way to create the table is something like the following: System.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 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

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There are people behind the systems to which we're bound today. Ten years ago, I was leading an inception for a company replacing their fleet maintenance systems. More modestly, we can simply license technology to replace major portions of legacy systems, and train or hire experts in that technology.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40