Highly Scalable
MARCH 1, 2012
NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because specific non-functional properties are often the main justification for NoSQL usage and fundamental results on distributed systems like the CAP theorem apply well to NoSQL systems.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 18, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.
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Jos
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Hace unos días hacía un análisis del rediseño de la web del Senado , justo tras su lanzamiento, desde el punto de vista de rendimiento web y mejores prácticas a la hora de desarrollar sitios web. La nueva web del Senado sufría múltiples problemas poco más que inaceptables para un proyecto tan reciente y con tal presupuesto. Pero al igual que destacaba dichos problemas, unas semanas después debo mencionar que varios de ellos han sido resueltos.
Tim Kadlec
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Maximiliano Firtman has done an excellent job providing an overview of what to expect from IE10 in Windows 8 , but I wanted to dig just a little deeper on one feature in particular. In Windows 8, there are two “modes” of use: Metro mode and classic mode. Metro mode sports the spiffy new UI while classic is the same old boring Windows of yore.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
On time. On scope. On budget. The holy grail of industrial, cost-center IT. Plan your work and work your plan. Be predictable. As a set of goals for software development, this troika is incomplete because it neglects quality. That is a costly omission. Poor quality will ultimately steamroll the other three project variables: we'll be late, we'll remove features, and we'll spend a lot more money than we want to when we are forced to chase quality.
Sutter's Mill
APRIL 30, 2012
At GoingNative in February , I emphasized the need for more modern and portable C++ libraries, including for things like RESTful web/cloud services, HTTP, JSON, and more. The goal is to find or develop modern C++ libraries that leverage C++11 features, and then submit the best for standardization. Microsoft wants to do its part, and here’s a step in that direction.
Highly Scalable
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. It sounds like a big umbrella, and it is. Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms.
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Highly Scalable
JANUARY 31, 2012
In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found on the web or scientific articles. Several practical case studies are also provided. All descriptions and code snippets use the standard Hadoop’s MapReduce model with Mappers, Reduces, Combiners, Partitioners, and sorting.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte-scale Data Warehouse Service. By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, we are excited to announce the limited preview of Amazon Redshift , a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 5, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud.
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.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service. By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications.
All Things Distributed
JULY 19, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding The Cloud â?? High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. These include the likes of high performance computation, for which we introduced the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instance types.
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.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 27, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My Best Christmas Present â?? Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting. By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 20, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Managing long-term digital archiving is a challenge for almost every company. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage.
Highly Scalable
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Java was initially designed as a safe, managed environment. Nevertheless, Java HotSpot VM contains a “backdoor” that provides a number of low-level operations to manipulate memory and threads directly. This backdoor – sun.misc.Unsafe – is widely used by JDK itself in the packages like java.nio or java.util.concurrent. It is hard to imagine a Java developer who uses this backdoor in any regular development because this API is extremely dangerous, non portable, and volatile.
Highly Scalable
APRIL 2, 2012
Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. From the business logic point of view, this was a pretty typical eCommerce service for hierarchical and faceted navigation, although not without peculiarities, but high performance requirements led us to the quite advanced architecture and technical design. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.
Highly Scalable
AUGUST 14, 2012
We recently worked with one of the Hadoop vendors on the continuous integration system for Hadoop core and other Hadoop-related projects like Pig, Hive, HBase. One of the challenges we faced was very slow automatic tests — full unit/integration test suite takes more than 2 hours for Hadoop core and more than 9 hours for Apache Pig. Although there are different ways to alleviate this problem (divide tests into suites, optimize tests by tweaking timeouts and sleeps, etc.), we decided to star
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 16, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the many meetings with customers in which I have done a deep dive on their architecture and applications to help them create an accurate cost picture, I have observed two common patterns: 1) It is hard for customers to come to an accurate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calcu
All Things Distributed
MAY 13, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront. By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the past three and a half years, Amazon CloudFront has changed the content delivery landscape. It has demonstrated that a CDN does not have to be complex to use with expensive contracts, minimum commits, or upfront fees, such that you are forcibly locked into a single vendor for a
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Da
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 23, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ??
All Things Distributed
MAY 8, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Todayâ??s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS custome
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 06 February 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). One of the things that differentiates Amazon Web Services from other technology providers is its commitment to let customers benefits from continuous cost-cutting innovations and from the economies of scale AWS is able to achieve.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 13, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. By Werner Vogels on 13 January 2012 08:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Join me at 9AM PST on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to find out what is next in the AWS Cloud. Registration required. Comments. blog comments powered by Disqus. â??.
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding Flexibility - Introducing the Reserved Instance Marketplace. By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we launched a new feature that enables you to buy and sell Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Reserved Instances are an important pricing option for AWS customers to drive cost down.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 5, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 24, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule. By Werner Vogels on 24 August 2012 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in the midst of my South America tour in the beautiful but very cold Santiago, Chile. The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 per GB/month.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-case
All Things Distributed
MARCH 20, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Thousand Platforms. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Todayâ??s AWS Elastic Beanstalk announcement of PHP and Git support reminded me of the post where I mentioned that we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS.
All Things Distributed
MAY 8, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Invention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity â??
All Things Distributed
JULY 13, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. By Werner Vogels on 13 July 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). For a while now I have been on a track to read one influential/fundamental Computer Science paper each weekend. I find that going back to the basics of system, network and language design forces a good appreciation for keeping designs simple and focus on those f
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. There is some real jaw dropping work being done around this town and I had the privilege to see some of these highly guarded secrets, all powered by AWS.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 22, 2012
Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customers’ on-premises applications. We have been working closely with our customers on their requests to bring the power of the Amazon Web Services cloud closer to their existing on-premises compute infrastructures.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 18, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Over the past several years Iâ??ve spent much of my time traveling around the world speaking about distributed systems. From building infinitely scalable data stores, architectures for high performance computing, to the challenges imposed by the CAP theorem, there are wonderful, c
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