All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. It is accessible only to vetted US entities and AWS account root users, who must confirm that they are US citizens or US permanent residents.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

When American Family Insurance took the multicloud plunge, they turned to Dynatrace to automate Amazon Web Services (AWS) event ingestion, instrument compute and serverless cloud technologies, and create a single workflow for unified event management. Step 1: Automate AWS metrics ingestion with Dynatrace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Project by Netflix’s Cloud Infrastructure Security team ( Alex Bainbridge , Mike Grima , Nick Siow) Cloud security is a hard problem, but an even harder one is cloud security at scale. In 2020, we decided to reinvent how we handle cloud security findings by redefining how we write and respond to cloud detections.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Research from 2020 suggests that training a single LLM generates around 300,000 kg of carbon dioxide emissions—equal to 125 round-trip flights from New York to London. As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions. This adoption will further impact carbon emissions.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

million in 2020. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Enterprises can deploy containers faster, as there’s no need to test infrastructure or build clusters. CaaS vs. PaaS.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. The open source model is not only popular with the developer market, but also enterprise companies looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce spend.

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Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Also: infrastructure and operations is trending up, while DevOps is trending down. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

billion in 2020 to $4.1 Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. Log analytics also help identify ways to make infrastructure environments more predictable, efficient, and resilient.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. Bulldozer abstracts the underlying infrastructure on how the data moves. Dataset of January 1st 2020. D ataset of January 2nd 2020. Production Usage We released Bulldozer in production in early 2020.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cloud Infrastructure Services -- An analysis of potentially anti-competitive practices by Professor Frédéric Jenny. What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service. The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A group advocating for fair licensing. It's a choice.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

By the summer of 2020, many UI engineers were ready to move to GraphQL. A Sticky Canary is an infrastructure experiment where customers are assigned either to a canary or baseline host for the entire duration of an experiment. Watch our Chaos Engineering talk from AWS Reinvent to learn more about Sticky Canaries.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace wants to fulfill all your requirements for infrastructure and application monitoring with a single platform to save you from the hassle of maintaining additional products and services. This includes the overview metrics for Cloud integrations (AWS, Azure) and Cloud Foundry as well as Kubernetes cluster metrics. Jan 1, 2020.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. test.collG 1533/195563 (0.8%) Aug 19 08:48:09 ip-172-30-2-122 pbm-agent[24331]: 2020/08/19 08:48:09 [####################.] test.collF 116432/134747 (86.4%) Aug 19 10:01:09 ip-172-30-2-122 pbm-agent[24331]: 2020/08/19 10:01:09 [#######################.]

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

With the prevalence of cyber threats and regulatory pressures, safeguarding your enterprise’s cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. A case in point is OpenAQ, which successfully deployed a robust PostgreSQL solution through ScaleGrid’s ‘Bring Your Own Cloud’ feature on AWS.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Spain in late 2022 or early 2023! I'm excited by the opportunities the availability of hyper scale infrastructure will bring to Spanish organizations of all sizes.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Kelsey Hightower via Twitter, 2020). Cloud provider/infrastructure layer. A layered approach for monitoring Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2020

All this can be done centrally from your Dynatrace cluster, regardless if you’re monitoring physical hosts, AWS EC2 server instances, services running in Kubernetes Pods, virtual machines under VMware, or any supported operating system or technology that can be monitored using Dynatrace. ” – a Dynatrace customer.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. ScaleGrid for Greenplum® Database is a fully managed solution for the open source version of Greenplum, launching in May 2020. So, how is this all coordinated?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

Our platform needed a full-stack approach, including virtual network infrastructure, containers, applications, and users. Over the next year, we’ll be working to evolve these new capabilities and introduce more offerings for integrations with Azure, AWS, Query Language, and more. We knew APM was critical but no longer enough.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

arXiv 2020. The first evaluation compares function composition overheads against pure AWS Lambda, Lambda functions communicating via S3, Lambda functions communicating via DynamoDB, and AWS Step Functions, as well as the SAND serverless platform that employs a hierarchical message bus and the Dask distributed Python runtime.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. For example, if you were planning to store your files in AWS S3, you’d want to do the following, which is very similar to the process of storing files with Google Cloud, Azure, Backblaze, or similar competing services. Philip Kiely. Django websites involve a lot of files.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. As our entire infrastructure is already hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) , choosing Amazon AWS CloudFront as our CDN solution was an immediate and obvious choice. Bookaway site search.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We won’t even need to worry as much about security; Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all do better backups than I ever will, are much better at surviving network disruption, and know an awful lot more about how to protect my data. Strata Data Conference in San Jose , March 15-18, 2020.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. We are planning to open source DBLog in 2020 and include additional documentation. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 203

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. We are planning to open source DBLog in 2020 and include additional documentation. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 217

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

A few years ago, The dark mode was first introduced, but from 2020 through 2021 has gained immense popularity. This architecture runs on cloud technology, and developers can focus on the code instead of the scaling, maintenance, and infrastructure facilities. Serverless Computing – AWS Lambda – Amazon Web Services.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. We can’t, for example, choose the devices that our users access our pages from or decide on the network infrastructure that their requests travel through, but we can take steps to improve our websites’ performance. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Also, Christian Schaefer explores strategies for loading ads in 2020.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

No longer do they need to spend valuable human and capital resources on maintaining and procuring expensive technology infrastructure and datacenters, they can focus their most valuable resources on what they do best, building better products and services for their customers.

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Cloud AWS Innovation Government 119

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

New metrics landed in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. In May 2020, Google has announced Core Web Vitals , a set of new user-focused performance metrics, each representing a distinct facet of the user experience. Globally in 2020, according to the IDC, 84.8% Treo provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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