All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 42 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The answer is hardware interrupts. This means that the thread may end up waking up a bit late, but Windows is not a real-time OS and it actually cannot guarantee a specific wakeup time (there may not be a CPU core available at that time anyway) so waking up a bit late should be fine.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. It's not because there are no other options available to them because of structural issues. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. It's a choice.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

As I sat down with the DynamoDB team to review our progress over the last year, I realized that DynamoDB had surpassed even my own expectations for how easily applications could achieve massive scale and high availability with DynamoDB. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

These smaller distilled models can run on off-the-shelf hardware without expensive GPUs. Spending a little money on high-end hardware will bring response times down to the point where building and hosting custom models becomes a realistic option. The same model will run in the cloud at a reasonable cost without specialized servers.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. At launch, an item’s change record is available in the stream for 24 hours after it is created. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication. DynamoDB Triggers.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). in the cloud).

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Standardization is still important, of course, because it makes these improvements available portably, with portable guarantees for C++ code on all platforms. More things adopted for C++26: Core language changes/features Note: These links are to the most recent public version of each paper. Daniel Towner and Ruslan Arutyunyan. Thanks, Ben!

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Par t of the appeal of Python is that there is a vast array of libraries available for it; when these are written in C, they can go a long way to alleviating Python’s performance problems. But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. Is there room for accelerators? MICRO 15 , Gope et al.,

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). A second takeaway is this: security has a cost! Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

It is very gratifying to see all of our learning and experience become available to our customers in the form of an easy-to-use managed service. It provides multi-data center replication, high availability, and offers rock-solid durability. Customers can typically achieve average service-side in the single-digit milliseconds.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important. Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Putting It All Together.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. Large preview ). Editor’s Note.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

I have seen our customers do so many radical new things with the analytics tools that our partners and us make available that I have made a few observations I would like to share with you. Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Over the decade since [the introduction of Availability Zones], our thinking on failure and availability has continued to evolve, and we paid increasing attention to blast radius and correlation of failure. EBS uses chain replication for availability, with data flowing from client to primary to replica.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Detailed query-level waits are available on demand via integrated Plan Explorer. We are evaluating augmenting instance-level waits with query level data from Query Store, when available. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. The situation is even more acute in WebView IABs, which tend not to fully support features from these categories even when they appear available to developers via script. No documentation is available for third-party web developers from any of the largest WebView IAB (ab)users.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. Regardless, Safari 16.4

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Energy Games Engineering Design 90

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

This matters because it is the corpus of attractive content uniquely available through a meta-platform that convinces users to adopt its runtime, and no platform developer can afford to build enough content to be compelling on their own. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features.

Games 64

Games Hardware Java Mobile 64

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. Helpful Error Tracking Tools You’ll find no shortage of error monitoring tools available online, but they offer varying amounts of insight.

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Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Cloud computing solutions work as a catalyst in this process due to the easily available high processing power of the cloud, resulting in faster deployments. If you are confused about the diverse cloud-based solutions available in the market today, let me help you with this. Centralizes the Processes. Types of cloud-based solutions.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In practice, moats are arbitrage on the unwillingness of web developers to understand or play the game, e.g. by loudly demanding timely features or recommending better browsers to users. Tipping Points # Bridge and moat tactics appear very different, but the common thread is control with an intent to suppress web platform expansion.

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Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 60

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). Among the 19 public processor SKUs, there are preferred choices for SQL Server at each available core count. AMD has released a game-changing processor family for the server market.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

On the first of Yahoo’s guiding principles: First is availability — this is the bedrock of building a website. If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. And so our job is to make sure that everything we do is out there, working, available to everybody. On another Yahoo!

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a resilient system. The criticality and potential cost of each failure mode is context dependent, and drives the available time and budget for prioritized mitigation plans.

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Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean?

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