All Things Distributed

JUNE 25, 2015

Today, Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) , a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for developers to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. Access to execute your function is controlled by permissions within AWS instead. AWS Lambda supports code written in Node.js (JavaScript) and Java.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. As the entire application shares the same computing environment, it collects all logs in the same location, and developers can gain insight from a single storage area.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure , DigitalOcean. Are you a startup that has free AWS or Azure hosting credits you’d like to use for your database hosting? Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET?

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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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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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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

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

In part 3 I mentioned that I had developed some phone based apps while at eBay Research Labs in 2006, and I had also become involved in the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club , where a bunch of people got together in their spare time to try and build a phone that would be programmable by anyone.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. In fact, the global log management market is expected to grow from 1.9 billion in 2020 to $4.1

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Cloud-hosted Kubernetes clusters are on par to overtake on-premises deployments in 2023.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AWS, making it elastic, scalable and highly reliable.

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Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 94

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt to the ever-changing world of web development. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could eventually help you land a job that doesn't exist yet. Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023. Source: web.dev 2.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). License Includedâ??

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. eBPF is in development for Windows as well (not just Linux where it originated).

Wireless 144

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

The cloud allows a modular approach to building applications, enabling development and operations teams to create and deploy feature-rich apps very quickly. It also entails secure development practices, security monitoring and logging, compliance and governance, and incident response.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

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Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 217

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What I'm concerned about, as a developer, is the collateral damage such ham-fisted regulation might cause. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Admittedly, it's a developer focussed argument, but there are more technical arguments against the move. For example, AWS created Nitro.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

. “The team did a two-part attack on that, where we rapidly added more physical infrastructure, but also expanded the Citrix environment into all five CSP regions that we had available to us in the government clouds from Azure and AWS,” Catanoso explains. Development teams can innovate faster with higher quality.

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Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 245

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Machine learning is one such transformational technology that is top of mind not only for CIOs and CEOs, but also developers and data scientists. Acceleration and distribution.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

This not only works for your custom developed applications, but also works for 3 rd party applications you host, e.g: Stephan demoed RUM for both a custom developed application as well as for Office 365 where he logged on to SharePoint and navigated through some pages.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Commercial databases are developed and maintained by a commercial business that are available for use through a licensing subscription fee, and may not be modified. Open source databases are free community databases with the source code available to the general public to use, and may be modified or used in their original design.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Many happy developers are using DynamoDB to handle trillions of requests every day. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. Let me expand on each one of them. DynamoDB Streams.

Database 156

Database Lambda AWS IoT 156

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. 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.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel.Â

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AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. All of the existing approaches we just examined involve trade-offs that AWS didn’t want to make.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1. containers stopping and starting). containers stopping and starting).

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 156

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership.

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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. With Amazon DynamoDB, developers scaling cloud-based applications can start small with just the capacity they need and then increase the request capacity of a given table as their app grows in popularity. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Today, I’m thrilled to announce several major features that significantly enhance the development experience on DynamoDB. These improvements have been sought by many applications developers, and we are happy to be bringing them to you. Enter Native Support for JSON in DynamoDB: Scalability and Flexibility Together at Last.

Availability 122

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 122

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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