All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. As we say at AWS, It is still Day One for DynamoDB.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Open Source 165

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Second, this exercise in model-building was … rather tedious? If a problem calls for a shiny new technique, or a large, branching neural network, someone on your team needs to handle that. That’s sort of true. Get your results in a few hours.

Tuning 145

Tuning Open Source Software Software 145

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible. Finally, the device receives the message, and the action, such as “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix”, is performed.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was a fascinating read, shedding light on leveraging AWS snapshots’ capabilities to avoid initial data copy within the RDS environment. Certainly, you can take advantage of this when you work with a large data set, and the initial copy could lead to long timeframes or network saturation. to PostgreSQL v15.4.

Database 103

Database Traffic C++ Servers 103

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. strength: -46 strength: -46 strength: -45 strength: -45 [.]

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode].

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. 4.22 %usr 38.40 0.42 %sys 9.52

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. Application Layer FMEA This first example FMEA models the application layer assuming it is implementing a web page or network accessed API.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52