All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. OpsWorks is designed for IT administrators and ops-minded developers who want an easy way to manage applications of nearly any scale and complexity without sacrificing control. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. Comments ().

AWS 145

AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. ve already passed our 2012 targets. We expect the system to provide the performance we need at 1/20th of the cost of the traditional DB approach.â??. Glen Arrowsmith, Systems Architect, Halfbrick Studios.

Games 117

Games Scalability AWS Database 117

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 92

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 92

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

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. Magnetic disks are rapidly starting to exhibit tape-like properties and with modern workloads being increasingly random, they are becoming less and less suitable as a storage system. All Things Distributed.

Cloud 117

Cloud Performance AWS Virtualization 117

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. Designed with High Availability in mind. We want to support these systems as a source so that they can provide their data for further consumption.

Database 223

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 223

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. It requires substantial upfront capital investments in cold data storage systems such as tape robots and tape libraries, then thereâ??s designed for 11 ninesâ??) All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage Cloud AWS Media 115

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. Designed with High Availability in mind. We want to support these systems as a source so that they can provide their data for further consumption.

Database 209

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 209

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. By designing autonomous distributed components, developers get the flexibility to deploy and scale out parts of the application independently as load increases. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â??

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Java Scalability 119

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 23, 2013

716-727 (2012). PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs , Joseph Gonzalez, Yucheng Low, Haijie Gu, Danny Bickson and Carlos Guestrin, Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2012.' Hellerstein, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol.

Cloud 69

Cloud Operating System Design Systems 69

SQL Performance

JULY 11, 2019

Connecting to SQL Server 2012 or better, or Azure SQL Database. And recommended system configuration: Two or more cores 8GB or more of memory Operating Systems: Windows (8.1 / Server 2012 R2 or better) macOS (10.13 An updated icon set, with alternates designed for dark themes, is in the works. NET Core Runtime 2.1

Azure 90

Azure Servers Tuning Operating System 90

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. Amazon S3 is designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities, redundantly storing your data on multiple devices across multiple facilities in an AWS Region. All Things Distributed.

Storage 96

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 96

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Often times an external system is providing data as JSON, so it might be a temporary store before data is ingested into other parts of the system. Wave 1: PostgreSQL 9.2 (2012) added support for JSON data type. For example, Stripe transactions. Timeline of JSON Support in PostgreSQL. GIN Indexes.

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key features of RabbitMQ, such as message acknowledgments, complex routing, and asynchronous processing, contribute to system reliability and performance. By decoupling applications, message queues enable them to operate independently and asynchronously, which is crucial for maintaining efficiency and flexibility in complex systems.

IoT 130

IoT Ecommerce Games Scalability 130

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 design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This framework resembles the approach suggested in [JK98].

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

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

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. NoSQL and Scale.

Availability 126

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 126

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. These steps inform a general description of the interaction loop: The system is ready to receive input. The system is ready to receive input. A Unified Theory #.

Performance 113

Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. If those specs sound eerily familiar, it's perhaps because they're identical to 2016's $200USD Moto G4 , all the way down to the 2011-vintage 28nm SoC process node used to fab the chip's anemic, 2012-vintage A53 cores. Tap for a larger version.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. It is a note by Saltzer that in the most clear and fundamental way lays out the concepts of naming, addressing, routing and binding in distributed systems. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Internet 64

Internet Internet Scalability Network 64

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

We have supported the development of technology skills across the region with Training and Certification programs to help customers develop skills to design, deploy, and operate their infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud. The BIPA has moved their Learning Management System to AWS, reducing costs by over 90%.

Cloud 122

Cloud Education Energy Government 122

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. More after jump!

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Development of DynamoDB was guided by the core set of distributed systems principles outlined in the Dynamo paper , resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. Saving crucial milliseconds.

Speed 98

Speed Cache Latency AWS 98

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 12 October 2012 06:00 PM. Autonet was a point-to-point network designed at Dec SRC research lab by Mike Schroeder s group. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Automatic Reconfiguration in Autonet. Comments ().

AWS 65

AWS Operating System Network Scalability 65

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. The Baseline Scenario #.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. Another common trigger for overflow has to do with one of the recognized mistakes in the design of CSS by the CSS Working Group. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Design the launch screen to be identical to the first screen of your app, as mentioned by Apple: “Design a launch screen that’s nearly identical to the first screen of your app. Don’t design an entry experience that looks like a splash screen or an "About" window. Every app must supply a launch screen.”. There you have it!

Performance 78

Performance Energy Operating System Code 78

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Some teams have complicated branching and testing processes which need accentuating, especially when legacy systems are involved or deploying to app stores. I discovered Kanban and WIP limits in 2012 and I’ve been a huge believer ever since. The details can vary quite a lot. But it’s not like you can just sprinkle on WIP limits?

Software Architecture 98

Software Architecture Architecture DevOps Software 98

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 17, 2023

Note that WER stands for Windows Error Reporting – the system that sends crash dumps back to Microsoft for analysis so that software reliability can be improved. There is also some confusion about the behavior – maybe the design has changed in the last ten years. Correlation is not causation , but it sure is suspicious.

Programming 114

Programming Processing Code Performance 114

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid."

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. It just kept shuffling the designs that satisfied its fitness function until the process finally converged. What makes a complex system troublesome isn’t the sheer number of connections. The mess is far from over.

Hardware 101

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. Uncritical acceptance of the high-quality design it had long delayed is an admission, of sorts, by Apple.

Energy 90

Energy Games Engineering Design 90

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

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52