High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you. THANKS Rust team for refining modern concepts into such a practical, elegant system. Aaron Frank : In the world of real estate, as Brad Inman puts it, “the company has gone viral.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. What is Docker?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. They enable real-time tracking and enhanced situational awareness for air traffic control and collision avoidance systems.

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IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 264

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. We have created streams of events from a number of systems that get unified into a single tool.

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters. There were languages I briefly read about, including other performance comparisons on the internet.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. These are advanced cloud configurations that allow you to protect your databases from the internet. Where to host your cloud database? Expert Tip.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem. The number of internet users in your house could increase your download speed needs by 2X or more.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Its concurrency mechanism makes it easy to write programs that maximize the use of multicore and network machines, and its innovative type system enables flexible and modular program construction. It is suitable for devices with limited hardware resources and a network environment with limited bandwidth.

IoT 130

IoT Hardware Programming Internet 130

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at warehouse scale, with hardware and software working in concert to deliver good levels of internet service performance. At 189 pages it's not exactly light reading, but it's packed with information you can't find anywhere else.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Anyone can rent a rack in a colo and stand up a system. Of course not, but let's ignore that very few organizations in the world have the technological know-how to create such managed services, especially without low level control of the entire system.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

Latency 222

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 222

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. 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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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Now, let’s take a look at the cloud infrastructure setup breakdown by database management systems. Public cloud is a cloud computing model where IT services are delivered across the internet. IBM Db2 came in 3rd place representing 11.1% of commercial database use combined with open source. Public Cloud.

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Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

Database 156

Database Lambda AWS IoT 156

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. A History of Architecture Support for Security.

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 107

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) This is not true.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. The most commonly used operating systems and browsers need to be involved. Files may not show.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted. – MWWF in action.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. All Things Distributed.

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AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

In recent years, this idea got a lot of traction and a whole bunch of solutions like Twitter’s Storm, Yahoo’s S4, Cloudera’s Impala, Apache Spark, and Apache Tez appeared and joined the army of Big Data and NoSQL systems. The system should deliver performance of tens of thousands messages per second even on clusters of minimal size.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 92

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture.

Cloud 96

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. System Coordination. Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. NoSQL and Scale. NoSQL and Flexibility: Document Model.

Availability 122

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 122

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Converging Views. Media Session API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The wide accessibility of the internet around the globe has made it easy for hackers to intrude into an organization’s system in an unethical manner and compromise their security controls to fulfill their harmful goals. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware.

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Testing Open Source Hardware Internet 67

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This premise, known as graceful degradation allows a system to continue working when parts of it are dysfunctional — much like an electric bike becomes a regular bike when its battery dies. Often system failures are chalked up as “corner cases” — things that rarely happen, however, the web has many corners.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Code 145

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56