All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Database monitoring Once more, under Applications & Microservices, we’ll also find Databases.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 179

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. For example, Samsung Electronic Printing used AWS to deploy its Printing Apps Center in a way that didn’t require them to invest up-front capital and kept total costs quite low.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. What is workload in cloud computing? The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Traditionally, these connections have been stored in relational databases, with each object type requiring its own table. Enter graph databases.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Many of you know Thorsten von Eicken as the founder of Rightscale , the company that has helped numerous organizations find their way onto AWS. The lack of low-latency made that distributed systems (e.g. database replication, fault tolerance protocols) could not benefit from these advances at the network level.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Using simple lookup indices in Cassandra gives us the ability to maintain acceptable read latencies while doing heavy writes.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN205-R Contributing to the AWS Construct Library (repeats) Using and loving the AWS Cloud Development Kit and want to help make it better? Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

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Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN205-R Contributing to the AWS Construct Library (repeats) Using and loving the AWS Cloud Development Kit and want to help make it better? Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. Only now the database is itself a distributed KVS, and the slices of application functionality are much finer-grained. Updates should be allowed at any function invocation site.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Latency – How much time does it take to deliver a packet from A to B. Amazon Cloudfront You can add server-timing headers via opt-in via the AWS Console as mentioned in this post. But what happens when it doesn't?

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult. Scaling Policies To address the thundering herd problem and to keep latencies under acceptable thresholds, the cluster scale-up policies are configured to be more aggressive than the scale-down policies.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience. Migrate databases intelligently.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 172

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. As we said at the time, DynamoDB was a result of 15 years of learning in the area of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Who knew! ;).

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. in Atlas , Netflix’s in-memory dimensional time series database. We ran each combination of replay file and buffering strategy 10 times each inside containers with 2 Gbps network and 16 CPUs, recording the total time to process all the operations in the replay files. Regional caching? —?Netflix

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. Where to go from here?

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al.,

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers. No lock-in.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Amazon SimpleDB has launched today with a new set of features giving the customer more control over which consistency and concurrency models to use in their database operations. These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind. Consistent Read.

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AWS Latency Database Scalability 69

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Database & functional migration. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. Try to measure your mean time to respond (MTTR) for incidents. that are used across multiple applications.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52