Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

The interfaces to our digital system have been dictated by the capabilities of our computer systems—keyboards, mice, graphical interfaces, remotes, and touch screens. As a result, they fail to deliver a truly seamless and customer-centric experience that integrates our digital systems into our analog lives.

Systems 93

Systems AWS Games Transportation 93

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re:Invent 2013. The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. The registration for AWS re:Invent is now open at this site.

AWS 71

AWS Strategy Scalability Cloud 71

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Log4Shell required many organizations to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to IT systems and sensitive data. At this year’s RSA conference, security pros will explore themes such as the role of automation in cyberthreat detection and the importance of DevSecOps in proactive cybersecurity.

Cloud 246

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 246

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time.

AWS 75

AWS Internet Internet Storage 75

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant? Cloud-native?

Google 173

Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 173

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments ().

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AWS Games Internet Internet 78

All Things Distributed

MARCH 30, 2017

This weekend I am travelling to Australia for the first AWS Summit of 2017. One topic that always gets me excited is how to take computer science research and implement it in production systems. real systems do not fail by stopping in a nice and clean way). At times, it makes research unsuitable for production (e.g.

Systems 77

Systems AWS Design Technology 77

All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Register for AWS re: Invent. The first annual AWS user and partner conference will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vega. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. Comments ().

AWS 69

AWS Big Data Media Storage 69

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

Cache 228

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 228

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs.

Architecture 252

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 252

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loosening: we were starting to go out in public, have parties, and in some cases even attend in-person conferences. Salaries were lower regardless of education or job title.

Azure 145

Azure Programming AWS Social Media 145

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I'm also grateful for the support for my work by other companies, technical communities, social communities (Twitter, HackerNews), conference organizers, and all who have liked my work, developed it further, and shared it with others. Thank you. I'll still be posting here in my next job. More on that soon.

Java 142

Java Cloud Cache AWS 142

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant? Cloud-native?

Google 130

Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. Neotys and T-Systems MMS are amongst the first companies to build extensions. Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline ….

Architecture 149

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 149

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. Engineers are remote, and may only meet once or twice a year at a Linux kernel conference. Last year I published [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], which I wrote from my home office with help from remote contributors. That doesn't happen.

Google 139

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 139

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. If you are building resilient systems with failover, the control plane that manages failover is often the hardest part of the system to get right.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. Each of the category winners will also receive $5K worth of AWS credits. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. Comments ().

Cloud 86

Cloud AWS Open Source Infrastructure 86

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Or even on a plane.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

Database 88

Database Design Cloud Storage 88

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule. By Werner Vogels on 24 August 2012 04:00 PM. Comments (). per GB/month.

Storage 86

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 86

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The amazing AWS re: Invent conference completed last night and I am on my way to Europe for a last visit to customers this year. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions. By Werner Vogels on 30 November 2012 11:00 AM.

AWS 66

AWS Scalability Network Systems 66

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Infrastructure and ops usage was the fastest growing sub-topic under the generic systems administration topic. DevOps aims to produce programmers who can work competently in each of the layers in a system “ stack.” We discuss likely reasons for this decline in more detail in our analysis of O’Reilly Strata Conference speaker proposals.

Software Architecture 142

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 142

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. AWS Solutions Architect Matt Tavis will present on " Architecting for the Cloud ". Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

AWS 65

AWS Cloud Storage Best Practices 65

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

Which human activities can be taken over by machines or ML-based systems? Until now, access to digital technologies was limited above all by a machine's abilities: The interfaces to our systems are no longer machine-driven; in the future humans will be the starting point. Which tasks will be left over for humans to do?

Artificial Intelligence 68

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology IoT 68

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Or even on a plane. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

There is a high cost associated with work that leaves your team… team boundaries and software boundaries should be isomorphic” — James Lewis, Thoughtworks I’ve written and spoken a lot about architecting sociotechnical systems and how to find boundaries. And there’s more research to back it up.

Systems 40

Systems Social Media Design Media 40