All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The Ohio Region is the fifth AWS region in the US. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14. The pace of expansion at AWS is accelerating, and Ohio is our third region launch this year. We are also glad to offer low transfer rates between both US East Regions.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report, we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives. are using public clouds.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

Cloud 119

Cloud Education Energy Government 119

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

PMC analysis (2017). I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. offer letter logo (2014). More on that soon.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. ivanveram : World R&D leading companies 2017 in US$. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Then please recommend my well reviewed (31 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!)

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 163

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

Database 89

Database Design Cloud Storage 89

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Setting up deployment on a specific cloud provider or an environment will result in the same configuration as if the same deployment was targeted towards a different cloud provider or another environment. We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017.

Code 167

Code Infrastructure DevOps Cloud 167

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. The use of a cheaper EBS Elastic volume instead of an SSD instance store was an attractive option because AWS allows dynamic increase in EBS volume size without re-provisioning the EC2 node.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. Impressive!

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Xen's biggest user is the Amazon EC2 cloud, which has over one million customers, and appears to be a custom version (it self identifies as version "3.4.3.amazon"). The way the cloud is used helps with security: most instances at my employer have only been up for one or two days. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. million requests per second.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Hello everyone, and welcome to the last Serverless Insights of 2017! re:Invent re:View AWS re:Invent was the expected cloud-fest of mind-boggling proportions. We survived intact, and in fact had a wonderful time meeting with a lot of fellow cloud enthusiasts. This is the latest edition of our newsletter. So that happened.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

While datacenter based IT costs are largely fixed, in a three year depreciation schedule, cloud costs are inherently variable, and can be sized to fit the need. When times get tough, a focus on cost optimization can also greatly reduce cloud costs, and the results take effect in next month’s bill.

Cloud 52

Cloud Social Media Healthcare Entertainment 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 30, 2017

So much so, that in March 2017, we announced Amazon Connect, which is the result of nearly ten years of work to build cloud-based contact centers at scale to power customer service for more than 50 Amazon teams and subsidiaries, including Amazon.com, Zappos, and Audible. AI has incredible potential in this area.

Artificial Intelligence 115

Artificial Intelligence Lambda AWS Virtualization 115

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the Cloud9 is, at its most simple, a cloud hosted IDE.

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Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

While datacenter based IT costs are largely fixed, in a three year depreciation schedule, cloud costs are inherently variable, and can be sized to fit the need. When times get tough, a focus on cost optimization can also greatly reduce cloud costs, and the results take effect in next month’s bill.

Cloud 40

Cloud Social Media Healthcare Entertainment 40

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 With faster disks (i.e. row.

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 72

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. This service is immediately available in all AWS regions. With the launch of Amazon Time Sync Service, AWS regions are equipped with similar GPS and atomic clocks.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the at re:Invent 2017. The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud.

Java 52

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. This architecture runs on cloud technology, and developers can focus on the code instead of the scaling, maintenance, and infrastructure facilities. AI-powered Chatbots.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. and products like AWS Fargate have made this distinction murkier still. Finally in this first overall section it was good to be able to talk about AWS SAM and SAR?—?“Serverless

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). An interesting way of avoiding parsing costs is to use binary templates that Ember has introduced in 2017. Bundle Buddy. Bundlephobia.

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