All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In 2011, AWS was the first cloud provider to launch an isolated infrastructure Region designed to meet the stringent requirements of government agencies and other highly regulated industries when it opened the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3. Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. This approach reduces side effects and allows services to evolve at their own pace without impacting the other components of the overall system. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM. All Things Distributed. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Comments ().

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2012

” and “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” are at the top for non-fiction (excluding the web-related ones). The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Linchpin by Seth Godin. Pull by David Siegel.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. All Things Distributed. DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. Comments (). Their starting rates is â?¬27.50

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 30, 2025

Summary and spoilers In this post, Im happy to report that serious taming of C++ UB is underway (1) Since C++11 in 2011, more and more C++ code has already become UB-free. So its valid to ask: Can and will C++ ever do enough about UB to make a major difference? Most people just didnt notice.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. All Things Distributed. Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Comments (). Today Amazon.com announced new solutions to help customers manage their digital music collections.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. To enable this broad choice, the core of AWS is composed of building blocks which customers and partners can use to build any system or application in the way they see fit. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To achieve concurrency control, we implemented Amazon ECS using one of Amazon’s core distributed systems primitives: a Paxos-based transactional journal based data store that keeps a record of every change made to a data entry. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Jeff Bezos 2011 Letter to Shareholders. All Things Distributed. AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments (). Invention comes in many forms and at many scales.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing " , Raluca Ada Popa and Catherine Redfield and Nickolai Zeldovich and Hari Balakrishnan,Symposium on Operating Systems Principles Cascais, Portugal, October 2011. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Organizations across the Nordics—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—have been increasingly moving their mission-critical applications to AWS.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. Amazon Import/Export is an important tool for customers to accelerate moving large amounts of data into the AWS storage systems. All Things Distributed. Comments (). blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Comments ().

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. Raw content data along with templates are version controlled using Git or similar versioning systems. can generate an HTML-only website without involving a CMS.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

For example, when a disastrous earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, many customers in Japan came to AWS to take advantage of the multiple Availability Zones. While the infrastructure costs for basic disaster recovery could have been very high, the associated system and database administration costs could be just as much or more.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The connected devices in your home – such as smart thermostats, lighting, and security systems – are all quietly consuming more bandwidth in the background. Back around 2011, most cable companies made the switch from DOCSIS 2.0 Smart devices also affect connection speeds. Specifications and standards are in flux.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%. Starting around 2011, advertising, which once framed the organic results and was clearly differentiated from them by color, gradually became more dominant, and the signaling that it was advertising became more subtle.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. It may be due to queueing, especially from file systems that send a batch of writes. 66-generic (lgud-bgregg) 12/16/2020 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 7.70

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 8, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Rodriguez-Aguilar and Mark Klein, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 43 Issue 2, January 2011. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists. By Werner Vogels on 08 June 2013 06:00 PM.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. All Things Distributed. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. All Things Distributed. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

At Amazon, we also require our systems and customer solutions to be anti-fragile, and we do that by designing our systems to stand the test of time. Our systems must be able to evolve and become more resilient to failure. and the digital transformation have already been important focus areas for them since 2011.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 23 February 2011 09:43 AM. All Things Distributed. Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. The ideal candidate will be someone who has built and ran large scale distributed systems and/or databases. All Things Distributed. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. All Things Distributed. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Comments (). Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 27 February 2011 11:28 PM. All Things Distributed. From the Archives - Gapingvoids Nobody Cares. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2011: Skrillex, Bangarang. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life."

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. All Things Distributed. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Comments (). Today we announced the launch of an exciting new feature that will significantly increase your control over your Amazon EC2 Spot instances.

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