All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. This is why tens of thousands of French customers already use AWS in Regions around the world.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

adrianco : The AWS EC2 NTP service has been backed by atomic clocks for the last few years. If you’re already on AWS then trial EKS but it doesn’t really give you that much currently. Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News!

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

50,000 : images in a National Geographic shoot; 11 billion : Voyager 2 miles traveled; 83% : AI papers originate outside the US; 80% : network partitions lead to catastrophic failures; 97% : large AWS customers use auto scaling; 82% : startup failures due to cashflow problems; $115.7

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

coryodaniel : Rewrote an #AWS APIGateway & #lambda service that was costing us about $16000 / month in #elixir. cablelounger : OH: To use AWS offerings, you really need in-house dev-ops expertise vs GCP, they make dev ops transparent to you I've a lot of experience with AWS and mostly agree with the first point.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 13, 2018

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first Symphonia Serverless Insights of 2018! And finally, while some people claim that Serverless doesn’t work for the enterprise, Capital One are busy migrating their regulated financial applications from a mainframe to AWS Lambda. This is the latest edition of our newsletter. Just saying.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2018

chx : Is Amazon AWS the new reality distortion field? rsingel : The fight against net neutrality is a fight to monetize scarcity. ISPs have no interest in a world of fast, cheap, ubiquitous connections. That road leads to being a commodity.

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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.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure. It doesn't lessen the impact or importance of OpenConnect; but, it grew out of a very real impasse with a very large ISP. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

LTS)—Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. LTS)—Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. We’re happy to announce full support for automated monitoring of AWS Fargate applications including deep code-level visibility and automated distributed tracing. OpenJDK v10 (non?LTS)—Oracle

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 It all looks good when capital is cheap I guess.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2019

WebSphere Application Server version 8.0 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere v8.0. Java 6 WebSphere Application Server version 8.5 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere version 8.5 with Java 6 (afterward, WebSphere 8.5

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

WebSphere Application Server version 8.0 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere version 8.0. Java 6 WebSphere Application Server version 8.5 ( EOS by IBM in April 2018 ) OneAgent 1.183 will be the last version that supports WebSphere version 8.5 with Java 6. Cloud Platform support.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

Redis Clusters is available for Redis on AWS on 14 different data centers across the world. This new announcement shortly follows ScaleGrid’s introduction to fully managed MySQL hosting at the end of 2018, and PostgreSQL hosting which is scheduled to release by February 2019. High Performance.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They'll love you even more.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate. With AWS Fargate, you can provision resources to run your containers at a much finer grain than with an EC2 instance. Getting Started.

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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. 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. But since this article is about connecting an application running on the server with AWS S3, we don’t consider this solution. Connecting To AWS Through The SDK. Leonardo Losoviz.

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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.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 1072-aws (xxx) 12/19/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 12.25 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util xvda 0.00

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and . We spent most of our time chatting to various folk about what they are doing with AWS now, and where they hope to proceed in 2019. AWS, for many organizations, is becoming the core, trusted, platform of how they work. To receive the email version please subscribe here.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

You can download the log file of your choice using either the Amazon RDS console OR you can use the following AWS CLI command to achieve the same: $ aws rds download-db-log-file-portion --db-instance-identifier perconasupport --starting-token 0 --output text --log-file-name slowquery/mysql-slowquery.log.2018-09-03.09 2018-09-03.09

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

I'm also grateful that my fiancée, Deirdré Straughan, could find the time outside of her AWS job to do technical copy-edit. reference guide]: [link] [one-liners tutorial]: [link] [bcc tools]: [link] [bcc]: [link] [tools]: [link] [bpftrace]: [link] [previously]: /blog/2018-10-08/dtrace-for-linux-2018.html

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Amazon Cloudfront You can add server-timing headers via opt-in via the AWS Console as mentioned in this post. In practice, it looks something like this: server-timing: processing_time; dur=123.4; However, wider adoption has only just started to take off.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We invite you to join us at our upcoming events throughout 2018, including tutorials and workshops in New York in February , in London in May , and in Rome in June. re:Invent re:View AWS re:Invent was the expected cloud-fest of mind-boggling proportions. We were especially grateful for how well our ‘chalk talks’ were received?—?John’s

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 1072-aws (xxx) 12/19/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 12.25 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util xvda 0.00

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. Dynatrace news.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We’re kicking off 2018 with a bang and a donut. All our agents now run on much faster AWS C4.Large We’ve been busy preparing all-new faster test agents and they’re now available for you to switch to – at no extra cost! Go to your Settings to switch to faster test agents. Faster agents.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL). MongoDB Enterprise editions and MongoDB Atlas — which integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — are not free. Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

We built this hack using Java (Springboot framework), the Google OAuth and Calendar APIs (for finding rooms) and Twilio API (for calling into the meeting), and deployed it on AWS. Thanks to all the teams who put together a great round of hacks in 24 hours.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

I'm also grateful that my fiancée, Deirdré Straughan, could find the time outside of her AWS job to do technical copy-edit. reference guide]: [link] [one-liners tutorial]: [link] [bcc tools]: [link] [bcc]: [link] [tools]: [link] [bpftrace]: [link] [previously]: /blog/2018-10-08/dtrace-for-linux-2018.html

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

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