Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

Metrics 190

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 190

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 ().

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AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 92

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks. Comments ().

Innovation 116

Innovation AWS Education Network 116

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

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.

Performance 113

Performance Latency Architecture Network 113

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. 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. The new GV100 packs 7.4

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

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 All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). Contact Info.

Storage 115

Storage Cloud AWS Media 115

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

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].

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. General registration opens up on July 25, 2012, however active AWS customers will get a chance to jump the line and start registering on July 20. All Things Distributed. Register for AWS re: Invent. Comments ().

AWS 69

AWS Big Data Media Storage 69

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.

Design 110

Design Development Programming Website 110

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. 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.

Storage 96

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 96

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 09 November 2012 05:00 PM. My goal with reading these papers is that by revisiting the original problems systems researchers were trying to solve you get a much better understanding of the challenges we are often still faced with today.

Network 69

Network Scalability Systems 69

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.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. CloudFront stays true to its mission in making a Content Delivery Network dead simple to use, and now they also do this for dynamic content. All Things Distributed. Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront.

Cache 97

Cache Latency AWS Website 97

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

Cache 70

Cache AWS Scalability Network 70

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

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Comments ().

AWS 66

AWS Scalability Network Systems 66

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. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

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. The BIPA has moved their Learning Management System to AWS, reducing costs by over 90%.

Cloud 122

Cloud Education Energy Government 122

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 (). Contact Info.

Internet 64

Internet Internet Scalability Network 64

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

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

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.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 98

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. Full backups are most suitable for critical systems or sensitive data that cannot afford any loss or downtime, allowing for a complete recovery of data in the event of data corruption, hacking, system failures, or natural disasters.

Storage 70

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 70

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. What makes a complex system troublesome isn’t the sheer number of connections.

Hardware 101

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

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

AWS 99

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 99

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well. Jump to online workshops ?.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yet we continue to find new applications for software: it is increasingly a product differentiator (embedded systems) or a product category of its own (social networking). The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

Software 73

Software Software Development Government 73

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Sometimes, due to insufficient memory, the operating system might need to remove your app from memory while the app is in the background, and the app might lose track of its last UI state if it is not preserved, possibly causing users to lose their work in progress! Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g.

Performance 78

Performance Energy Operating System Code 78

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

In the end, youll have built a shopping cart using GraphCMS (a (backend-only content management system). A scalable, cross-platform content management system is crucial to ensuring a product’s growth velocity. It was developed by Facebook in 2012 and released open-sourced in 2015. Using GraphCMS. GraphCMS And GraphQL.

Open Source 105

Open Source Website Mobile Code 105

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

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. But over time, something went very wrong. The market was maturing.

Social Media 110

Social Media Google Internet Internet 110

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 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].

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. What Could Go Wrong? file hosted as part of their own website on their own server.

Website 59

Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

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 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52