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 Serverless is for startups who can't afford their own.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC! They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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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. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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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. They'll love you even more. More more more.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

From this data, the team found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth—typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second—to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic. They'll love you even more.

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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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High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

ThousandEyes : The Internet is made up of thousands of autonomous networks that are interdependent on one another to deliver traffic from point to point across the globe. 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.

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Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). This meant that by using SSD (NVMe) we were able to meet our SLA and throughput requirements at a significantly lower cost.

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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.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2018

RealSexyCyborg : You don't give lessons on the internet in how to avoid Chinese law enforcement. 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.

Internet 102

Internet Internet Scalability Best Practices 102

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). There are more quotes, more everything.

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

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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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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AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

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.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Now that nearly everyone with internet access is web literate, developers need to start literally thinking outside of the box to hold the attention of the user.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. But since this article is about connecting an application running on the server with AWS S3, we don’t consider this solution. Connecting To AWS Through The SDK. Leonardo Losoviz.

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AWS Servers Storage Cloud 45

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? We’ve never seen a new technology command so much attention so quickly: not personal computers, not the internet, not the web. That’s not the same as failure, and 2018 significantly predates generative AI.

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Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 136

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% Stacey Higginbotham : a startup in France called GreenWaves Technologies has built a dedicated chip for the Internet of Things.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

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). In 2018, the Alliance of Open Media has released a new promising video format called AV1. AV1 has compression similar to H.265

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. 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). 265 codec (the evolution of H.264)

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , Netlify Edge , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly (currently only as a pass-through), Cloudflare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times).

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