All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System (Nitro System), the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. Now, with the Nitro System, we can offer the best price performance in the cloud, the most secure environment, and a faster pace of innovation.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The Greenplum Architecture.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Additionally, blind spots in cloud architecture are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to balance application performance with a robust security posture. As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

To drive better outcomes using hybrid cloud architectures, it helps to understand their benefits—and how to orchestrate them seamlessly. What is hybrid cloud architecture? Hybrid cloud architecture is a computing environment that shares data and applications on a combination of public clouds and on-premises private clouds.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. High availability does not guarantee 100% uptime, but an HA system enables you to minimize downtime to the point you’re almost there.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. . – Agile.

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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. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. More in the following sub-section.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. Additionally, Conductor supports render management systems?—?including

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This operational data could be gathered from live running infrastructures using software agents, hypervisors, or network logs, for example. Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

The data platform is built on top of several distributed systems, and due to the inherent nature of these systems, it is inevitable that these workloads run into failures periodically. We have been working on an auto-diagnosis and remediation system called Pensive in the data platform to address these concerns.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

We can find many more examples across many more decades that reflect naiveté and optimism and–if we are honest–no small amount of ignorance and hubris. The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. In most curriculums, undergrad students do not have much exposure to computer architecture. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. In this post, we will consider the use of mathematics/cryptography as an approach to improving systems security. Transmission: A number of encryption schemes (e.g.,

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. In December of 2021, for example, Log4Shell highlighted the importance of organizations to monitor code in development and production but also the code of their partners and customers. Serverless architecture expands.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? Read report now!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda enables organizations to access many types of functions from AWS’ cloud-based services, such as: Data processing, to execute code based on triggers, system states, or user actions. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. How does AWS Lambda work?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. You may ask: How is this possible? At our PerformGO!

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Examples of traditional natural monopolies are dams, railroads, power plants, water supply, and sewer services. You can even go old school and use non cloud-native architectures. Anyone can rent a rack in a colo and stand up a system.

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cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Serverless is currently a hot topic in many modern architectural patterns. Serverless systems are still in their infancy. Serverless Computing is also known as FaaS (Function as a Service). Advantages.

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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. A History of Architecture Support for Security. A History of Architecture Support for Security. Timeline of ISA support for Security in Commodity Processors.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. An Example. What is Configuration Testing?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

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ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Andrew Chien rightfully raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases. In a DBMS, data serves as the material which the system stores, structures, and controls.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges.

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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. For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. For example, high energy particles tend to produce transient faults, whereas defects can cause intermittent or permanent faults. An example protection technique that can provide this capability is an Error Correcting Code (ECC).

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. Programmers continue to write applications in them, and they continue to evolve: the just approved C++20 standard is the latest example.

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