Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more.

Metrics 180

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 180

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project started in 2012 with the idea of providing technical content during the Christmas Advent period, so keep looking for nice things under the Java Christmas tree! ??. The calendar was first started back in 2012 so there’s plenty of content to sift through. The Java Advent 2021 is here! JavaAdvent on Twitter. Bekk Christmas.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction.

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. Network Bandwidth Utilization : This is another potential disadvantage when it comes to full backups. This results in smaller backup sets, reducing storage requirements, time to take the backup, and network usage, as compared to full backups.

Storage 68

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 68

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. This helps support over 50 million searches every month on its networks across Italy. AWS also has a vibrant partner ecosystem in Italy as part of the AWS Partner Network (APN).

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. CCS’19. Boulder.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. 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. We continuously apply all our innovative skills to the design of datacenters, servers, storage, network, etc. Comments ().

AWS 110

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 110

All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. There are sessions in many different categories: Architecture, Big Data, HPC, Computer & Networking, Storage, Databases, Security, Tools & Languages, Media Sharing & Content Delivery, Managing AWS Resources, Enterprise IT, Mobile, Start-up, and more. All Things Distributed.

AWS 83

AWS Big Data Media Storage 83

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services. I can keep going – Kindle Fire’s FreeTime, our customer service Andon Cord, Amazon MP3’s AutoRip – but will finish up with a very clear example of internally driven motivation: Amazon Web Services.

AWS 132

AWS Energy Innovation Best Practices 132

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 13 July 2012 09:00 AM. 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 fundamentals that matter most to users. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. Comments ().

Systems 97

Systems Best Practices Design Network 97

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 September 2012 06:00 PM. They have been used in many network devices, network protocols and distributed applications where a question like "have I possibly seen this before" needs to be able to operate at very large scale. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters.

Cache 84

Cache AWS Scalability Network 84

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 09 November 2012 05:00 PM. Roger Needham and Mike Schroeder were some of the first researchers to tackle the problem of secure communication over insecure networks; their protocols deal with how to authenticate both parties and how to establish a secure channel between the parties. Comments (). Contact Info.

Network 83

Network Scalability Systems 83

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 30 November 2012 11:00 AM. It deals with the failure of control if networks grow larger and presents several solutions based on locality that have found practical applications. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

AWS 75

AWS Scalability Network Systems 75

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 October 2012 06:00 PM. Autonet was a point-to-point network designed at Dec SRC research lab by Mike Schroeder s group. I am actually picking a follow-up paper to read this weekend, it deals with fault-tolerance of the network through automatic reconfiguration of its components. Comments ().

AWS 73

AWS Operating System Network Scalability 73

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. We still have another five AWS Regions (and 14 Availability Zones) in China, France, Hong Kong, and Sweden.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. But over time, something went very wrong. The market was maturing.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. H., " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", RFC 1498, August 1993. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding. Comments ().

Internet 72

Internet Internet Scalability Network 72

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. VM Import allows our customers to move virtual machine images from their datacenters to the Cloud and Amazon Direct Connect makes the network latencies and bandwidth between on-premises and AWS more predictable. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] , 2021 [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] , Apr 2021 [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. for those datasets that are too large to transmit via the network AWS offers the ability to up- and download data from disks that can be shipped. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). copyconstruct : "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. Enter the Preloader.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 22, 2018

2012 was a dark time for responsive images. No one pays a higher memory cost than necessary and the network costs can still be kept mostly in check. Standards work had begun, but there was no consensus and many angry people (myself included). Some remained unconvinced that responsive images were even a problem that needed to be solved.

Network 76

Network Availability Performance Development 76

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. From at least 2012, Apple has deigned to allow "competing browsers" in its App Store. Heaven forfend! ??.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2012

I’m giving the opening talk, and the rest of the day is full of useful technical information on everything from XAML and DirectX to networking and VC++ compiler flags. From the page: Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++.

C++ 40

C++ Games Internet Internet 40