All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

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. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses.

Cloud 94

Cloud Development AWS Servers 94

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. And namespaces, used for Linux containers, are also a relevant technology. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

On the other hand, although big tech went from villain to hero in a short period of time because of the crisis, increased dependency on technology will bring renewed scrutiny to big tech. On the one hand, many regulations have been lightened to make it easier for companies to conduct business during the crisis. Corporate IT costs will rise.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

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

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

in the rent payment), so technology costs represent a larger - and discreetly measurable - operating expense. But we also know that a lot of firms still license captive ERP systems (no SaaS), operate captive data centers (no Cloud), and issue hardware to employees (no BYOD). retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g.,

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40