All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records.

Games 113

Games Scalability AWS Database 113

Highly Scalable

JUNE 5, 2012

Intersection of sorted lists is a cornerstone operation in many applications including search engines and databases because indexes are often implemented using different types of sorted structures. At GridDynamics, we recently worked on a custom database for realtime web analytics where fast intersection of very large lists of IDs was a must for good performance.

C++ 102

C++ Java Performance Testing Efficiency 102

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2012

A couple of months back, I wrote that it is important to shorten the results cycle - the time in which teams accomplish business-meaningful things - before shortening the reporting cycle - the time in which we report progress. Doing the opposite generates more heat than light: it increases the magnification with which we scrutinize effort while doing nothing to improve the frequency or fidelity of results.

Government 45

Government Software Software Mobile 45

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 2, 2012

I’ve been beating the drum this year (see the last section of the talk) that the biggest problem facing C++ today is the lack of a large set of de jure and de facto standard libraries. My team at Microsoft just recently announced Casablanca , a cloud-oriented C++ library and that we intend to open source, and we’re making other even bigger efforts that I hope will bear fruit and I’ll be able to share soon.

C++ 42

C++ Open Source Tuning Cloud 42

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 29, 2012

Here’s another deep session for C&B 2012 on August 5-8 – if you haven’t registered yet, register soon. We got a bigger venue this time, but as I write this the event is currently almost 75% full with five weeks to go. I know, I’ve already posted three sessions and a panel. But there’s just so much about C++11 to cover, so here’s a fourth brand-new session I’ll do at C&B 2012 that goes deeper on its topic than I’ve ever been willing to go before. atomic<> Weapons: The C++11 Memory

Hardware 40

Hardware C++ Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

While visiting Facebook earlier this month, I gave a shorter version of my “Welcome to the Jungle” talk, based on the eponymous WttJ article. They made a nice recording and it’s now available online here: Facebook Engineering. Title: Herb Sutter: Welcome to the Jungle. In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend—mainstream computers from desktops to ‘smartphones

Latency 40

Latency Transportation Hardware Education 40