High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The R5a, M5a and T3a instances purportedly will offer a 10% price-to-performance advantage over AWS's other cloud instances. Amazon Web Services, one of the world's largest cloud service providers, announced that, beginning today, it is offering new EPYC-powered cloud instances.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 27, 2019

At re:Invent 2018, AWS announced the AWS App Mesh public preview, a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across applications. Today, I'm happy to announce that App Mesh is generally available for use by customers. New architectural patterns.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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High Scalability

APRIL 27, 2020

At least that’s what I realized the first time I heard Rick Houlihan give his now infamous talk at AWS re:Invent 2018 on Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB. As a mere novice in the ways of DynamoDB I realized there were many levels of understanding needed before one could become a true AWS Data Hero.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

Read about it and some of the consequences (search for “Misguided performers”) in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. In other words, this new Snowball variant isn’t about processing data on-prem, it’s about making Snowball a better on-ramp to AWS.

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

We built this hack using Java (Springboot framework), the Google OAuth and Calendar APIs (for finding rooms) and Twilio API (for calling into the meeting), and deployed it on AWS. Thanks to all the teams who put together a great round of hacks in 24 hours.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

50,000 : images in a National Geographic shoot; 11 billion : Voyager 2 miles traveled; 83% : AI papers originate outside the US; 80% : network partitions lead to catastrophic failures; 97% : large AWS customers use auto scaling; 82% : startup failures due to cashflow problems; $115.7

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

adrianco : The AWS EC2 NTP service has been backed by atomic clocks for the last few years. If you’re already on AWS then trial EKS but it doesn’t really give you that much currently. Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News!

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. Me : Nothing special. 1) Enterprise data centres will continue to close. 3) Serverless will rocket.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They'll love you even more.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2019

WebSphere Application Server version 8.0 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere v8.0. Java 6 WebSphere Application Server version 8.5 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere version 8.5 with Java 6 (afterward, WebSphere 8.5

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

coryodaniel : Rewrote an #AWS APIGateway & #lambda service that was costing us about $16000 / month in #elixir. cablelounger : OH: To use AWS offerings, you really need in-house dev-ops expertise vs GCP, they make dev ops transparent to you I've a lot of experience with AWS and mostly agree with the first point.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

. $150 billion : Bezos Prime; 49% : Amazon's share of US e-commerce; 1,000 terabytes : image size to represent one cubic millimeter of brain tissue; 7x : 4 year reduction in cost of computing power; 25x : faster code using SIMD; 4TB : RAM in GCE “ultramem” instance type; 4 months : half-life of an ICO; 80% : cost savings moving from AWS (..)

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2018

chx : Is Amazon AWS the new reality distortion field? rsingel : The fight against net neutrality is a fight to monetize scarcity. ISPs have no interest in a world of fast, cheap, ubiquitous connections. That road leads to being a commodity.

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High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology. Their sales staff is arrogant and has no idea how to sell into F500 type companies.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. This is why tens of thousands of French customers already use AWS in Regions around the world.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure. It doesn't lessen the impact or importance of OpenConnect; but, it grew out of a very real impasse with a very large ISP. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 It all looks good when capital is cheap I guess.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

WebSphere Application Server version 8.0 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere version 8.0. Java 6 WebSphere Application Server version 8.5 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere version 8.5 with Java 6. Cloud Platform support.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

LTS)—Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. LTS)—Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. We’re happy to announce full support for automated monitoring of AWS Fargate applications including deep code-level visibility and automated distributed tracing. OpenJDK v10 (non?LTS)—Oracle

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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! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Historically the focus of our tooling and platform has been on AWS EC2, but with more users making the migration, we need to provide better support for container use cases. Why the changes There are two main triggers for the refresh: Firstly, at Netflix we are seeing significant growth in the use of our container environment (Titus).

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

Redis Clusters is available for Redis on AWS on 14 different data centers across the world. This new announcement shortly follows ScaleGrid’s introduction to fully managed MySQL hosting at the end of 2018, and PostgreSQL hosting which is scheduled to release by February 2019. High Performance.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate. With AWS Fargate, you can provision resources to run your containers at a much finer grain than with an EC2 instance. Getting Started.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. All of the existing approaches we just examined involve trade-offs that AWS didn’t want to make.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 13, 2018

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first Symphonia Serverless Insights of 2018! And finally, while some people claim that Serverless doesn’t work for the enterprise, Capital One are busy migrating their regulated financial applications from a mainframe to AWS Lambda. This is the latest edition of our newsletter. Just saying.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Note: You need valid AWS credentials to access the public S3 data. Script users should update the DDL file with their own AWS keys to load the TPC-DS data. The scientific method requires results to be reproducible—in the cloud, it should be straightforward for customers to do so. Optimizing performance for bursts of user activity.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Amazon and AWS Ascendant. If Microsoft and Google really are coming on strong, they aren’t dislodging Amazon and AWS. Serverless Stagnant.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

I'm also grateful that my fiancée, Deirdré Straughan, could find the time outside of her AWS job to do technical copy-edit. reference guide]: [link] [one-liners tutorial]: [link] [bcc tools]: [link] [bcc]: [link] [tools]: [link] [bpftrace]: [link] [previously]: /blog/2018-10-08/dtrace-for-linux-2018.html

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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