Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. Impressive!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Note 1: For a simple functionality such as cropping avatars, another solution would be to completely bypass the server, and implement it directly in the cloud through Lambda functions. Leonardo Losoviz. Creating The Bucket.

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Percona

DECEMBER 28, 2022

You may follow the Percona blog to create an external replica from Aurora using MyDumper or review the AWS documentation page. Start a transaction on reader: mysql> SELECT connection_id(); + --+ | connection_id() | + --+ | 21| + --+ 1 row in set (0.27 Trying to reconnect.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The challenge is that accurate data isn’t available immediately, and cloud providers currently only provide monthly carbon data, with several months lag. Cloud providers don’t disclose their own REC and Private Purchase Agreements, but these are taken into account in their monthly reports, with a few months delay.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

While my move is among the first from the Linux cloud teams, Netflix has had staff in Australia for years (for content, marketing, and the FreeBSD OCA). I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance. Now, in 2021, Australia has a thriving tech market.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Regional isolation.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. Build security in from the ground up.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, they introduced a hosted version of MovableType in 2003 called TypePad to compete with other popular cloud platforms. In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.”

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Other insights in the use of this option can be read on the AWS developer blog. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When you can’t see a process in action, the whole thing can feel a little bit like magic — something that isn’t helped by the insistence of certain companies on adding words like “cloud” and “serverless” to their product names. The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. More after jump!

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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