All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap. Cloud technology has introduced new ways for studios and artists across the globe to create incredible content,” said Antony Passemard, general manager of Creative Tools at AWS. “We

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A structured approach Reducing carbon emissions involves a combination of technology, practice, and planning. Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Application architectures might not be conducive to rehosting. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. Cache Merril. In reality, all good software development must flow from a business technology roadmap, as it: Provides context around the development team’s daily work. What Is A Business Technology Roadmap?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering there is no eviction policy, and there are no cache misses. One exciting thing about the total nature of this technology?—?because

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. This is simply not possible with conventional architectures. Data management.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. We can use cloud technologies such as Amazon Kinesis or Azure Stream Analytics for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time, streaming data to get timely insights and react quickly to new information(e.g. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace’s Lambda extension fully supports Arm-based architectures. In addition, Dynatrace visualizes each Lambda function interactive map of how everything is interconnected using our patented Smartscape technology. You can use Dynatrace to monitor all your AWS Lambda functions, whether they are running on x86 or Arm architecture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Most enterprises use serverless functions as part of a broader hybrid environment, covering both cloud and traditional technologies. Lambda then takes a snapshot of the memory and disk state of the initialized execution environment, persists the encrypted snapshot, and caches it for low-latency access. What is Lambda SnapStart?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization. It also provides paths to remediation to keep the technology users rely on functioning smoothly. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

When undertaking system migrations, one of the main challenges is establishing confidence and seamlessly transitioning the traffic to the upgraded architecture without adversely impacting the customer experience. It helps expose memory leaks, deadlocks, caching issues, and other system issues.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

These are just a few of the open-source technologies you may encounter as you research observability solutions for managing complex multicloud IT environments and the services that run on them. In fact, these technologies have become so prevalent that anybody who may not know the full scope of the topic may be afraid to ask.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Microservices architecture. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. Things To Consider When Choosing A Headless CMS.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. As a consequence, the vast majority of the papers in the past has usually focused on conventional X86 or GPU-accelerated architectures.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. REDIS for caching. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Dynatrace’s PurePath technology brings us automatic end-to-end code level tracing without having to modify any code or configuration. NGINX as an API Gateway.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Thanks to its simple and modern structure, it has gained popularity among many large technology companies from Uber to Dropbox. With no required recompilation or code changes, you can: Monitor web-scale and highly dynamic microservice architectures including statically as well as dynamically linked Go applications and platform components.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

pMD is a fast­ growing , highly rated health care technology company that has been recognized as a Best Place to Work by SF Business Times, Modern Healthcare, and Inc. pMD is a fast­ growing , highly rated health care technology company that has been recognized as a Best Place to Work by SF Business Times, Modern Healthcare, and Inc.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. The point-of-sales system records changes from all the purchases and stores them in DynamoDB.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. This architectural pattern was a response to the scaling challenges that had challenged Amazon.com through its first 5 years, when direct database access was one of the major bottlenecks in scaling and operating the business.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.) ( Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While registrars manage the namespace in the DNS naming architecture, DNS servers are used to provide the mapping between names and the addresses used to identify an access point. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis monitoring is essential for any tech professional. To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology. Distributed Storage Architecture Distributed storage systems are designed with a core framework that includes the main system controller, a data repository for the system, and a database.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. SIGCOMM’20. What does 5G do to your battery life (i.e.,

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

When planning your database HA architecture, the size of your company is a great place to start to assess your needs. This base architecture keeps the database available for your applications in case the primary node goes down, whether that involves automatic failover in case of a disaster or planned switchover during a maintenance window.

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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

33-generic Architecture | CPU = 64-bit, OS = 64-bit Threading | NPTL 2.35 Caches | 12.4G 33-generic Architecture | CPU = 64-bit, OS = 64-bit Threading | NPTL 2.35 Caches | 12.4G Platform | Linux Release | Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (jammy) Kernel | 6.2.0-33-generic Used | physical = 2.2G, swap allocated = 2.0G, swap used = 0.0,

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Performance Optimization Optimizing the performance of a distributed SQL database involves fine-tuning queries, indexing, and caching strategies to work effectively across multiple servers. It requires implementing scalable architecture from the outset and continuously monitoring performance data to predict when to scale.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers. One or more specified cache servers are unavailable, which could be caused by busy network or servers. …). Please retry later.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For streaming technology, Netflix utilizes a variety of options such as Kafka, SQS, Kinesis, and even Netflix specific streaming solutions such as Keystone. This way, log event processing can resume event-by-event afterwards, eventually discovering the watermarks, without ever needing to cache log event entries. Figure 3?—?DBLog

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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