All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

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. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. For storage, FIO is generally used. Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. In particular, it’s goodbye to the POSIX interface.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? House Antitrust Subcommittee includes their most specific claims: 4. If yes, please describe any restrictions that Apple imposes and all the reasons for doing so.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. that are used across multiple applications.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. that are used across multiple applications.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52