All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. The first practical modern implementation is probably C-Store by Stonebraker, et al.

Storage 72

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 72

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season. All Things Distributed.

Cloud 94

Cloud Development AWS Servers 94

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

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. To make this process work more efficiently and ensure a smooth failover, it is important to have the same hardware configuration on all the nodes of the replica set.

Database 98

Database Servers Storage Strategy 98

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. The science has spawned specialized chaos engineers who dedicate themselves to disrupting cloud software and the on-prem systems they interact with to make them resilient. Unclear starting system state.

Engineering 264

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Longer answer follows: Here’s the main part from article, “Design for Manycore Systems” (August 11, 2009).

Hardware 40

Hardware Programming Scalability Software 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78