All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

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. We continuously apply all our innovative skills to the design of datacenters, servers, storage, network, etc. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. They contain large amounts of locally attached storage on multiple spindles and are connected by a minimally oversubscribed 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

I’m going to put them together especially and only for C++ and Beyond 2012 , and I’ll be giving them nowhere else this year: C++ Concurrency – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard). C++ Parallelism – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard). I hope to see many of you at C&B 2012. And there’s a lot to tell. I can’t wait.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services. I can keep going – Kindle Fire’s FreeTime, our customer service Andon Cord, Amazon MP3’s AutoRip – but will finish up with a very clear example of internally driven motivation: Amazon Web Services.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. CCS’19. Boulder.

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Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project started in 2012 with the idea of providing technical content during the Christmas Advent period, so keep looking for nice things under the Java Christmas tree! ??. The calendar was first started back in 2012 so there’s plenty of content to sift through. The Java Advent 2021 is here! JavaAdvent on Twitter. Bekk Christmas.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. There are sessions in many different categories: Architecture, Big Data, HPC, Computer & Networking, Storage, Databases, Security, Tools & Languages, Media Sharing & Content Delivery, Managing AWS Resources, Enterprise IT, Mobile, Start-up, and more. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 13 July 2012 09:00 AM. I find that going back to the basics of system, network and language design forces a good appreciation for keeping designs simple and focus on those fundamentals that matter most to users. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. Comments ().

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

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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. Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. When customers run their origins in AWS, we expect that our network paths from each CloudFront edge to the various AWS Regions will perform better with less packet loss given that we monitor and optimize these network paths for availability and performance. All Things Distributed.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 September 2012 06:00 PM. They have been used in many network devices, network protocols and distributed applications where a question like "have I possibly seen this before" needs to be able to operate at very large scale. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. VM Import allows our customers to move virtual machine images from their datacenters to the Cloud and Amazon Direct Connect makes the network latencies and bandwidth between on-premises and AWS more predictable. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. for those datasets that are too large to transmit via the network AWS offers the ability to up- and download data from disks that can be shipped. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 09 November 2012 05:00 PM. Roger Needham and Mike Schroeder were some of the first researchers to tackle the problem of secure communication over insecure networks; their protocols deal with how to authenticate both parties and how to establish a secure channel between the parties. Comments (). Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. We still have another five AWS Regions (and 14 Availability Zones) in China, France, Hong Kong, and Sweden.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Scalability Strategies for IoT Networks As the number of devices connected to IoT networks expands, ensuring scalability becomes crucial. What scalability features does RabbitMQ offer for IoT networks? Consistent hashing and horizontal scaling are robust scalability features RabbitMQ provides for IoT networks.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 30 November 2012 11:00 AM. It deals with the failure of control if networks grow larger and presents several solutions based on locality that have found practical applications. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2012

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. I am actually picking a follow-up paper to read this weekend, it deals with fault-tolerance of the network through automatic reconfiguration of its components. Comments ().

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. H., " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", RFC 1498, August 1993. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding. Comments ().

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Internet Internet Scalability Network 64

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. The TLS + QUIC layer makes UDP safer to use, but a lot of networks will likely still block for awhile. The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server. What and Why?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these goals in mind, In January, 2012 we launched Amazon DynamoDB , our cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Back in 2012, 1.8 Viewability issues are more serious with non-direct inventory, i.e. display ads purchased on networks and ad exchanges. Issues around ad viewability are known for quite some time now, it was not until very recently advertisers and ad vendors started taking ad viewability very seriously.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services. You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. Network Bandwidth Utilization : This is another potential disadvantage when it comes to full backups. This results in smaller backup sets, reducing storage requirements, time to take the backup, and network usage, as compared to full backups.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. From at least 2012, Apple has deigned to allow "competing browsers" in its App Store. Heaven forfend! ??.

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