All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding The Cloud â?? High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. These include the likes of high performance computation, for which we introduced the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instance types.

Cloud 129

Cloud Performance AWS Virtualization 129

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2012

“If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.” Clearly, the Babylonians understood that the builder will always know more about the risks than the client, and can hide fragilities and improve his profitability by cutting corners—in, say, the foundation.

Hardware 45

Hardware Software Software Development 45

Sutter's Mill

JULY 30, 2012

At the end of the Monday afternoon session, I will be making a special announcement related to Standard C++ on all platforms. Be there to hear the details, and to receive an extra perk that’s being reserved for C&B 2012 attendees only. Note: We sometimes record sessions and make them freely available online via Channel 9, and we intend to do that again this year for some selected sessions.

C++ 40

C++ Availability Development Software 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. By Werner Vogels on 13 July 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). For a while now I have been on a track to read one influential/fundamental Computer Science paper each weekend. 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 f

Systems 97

Systems Best Practices Design Network 97

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today.

Operating System 94

Operating System Virtualization Systems Hardware 94

All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Register for AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The first annual AWS user and partner conference will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vega. It is shaping up to be a great event with many Amazonians, partners and customers presenting in well over 150 sessions.

AWS 83

AWS Big Data Media Storage 83

All Things Distributed

JULY 27, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Systems Simplicity. By Werner Vogels on 27 July 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekends reading departs a bit from the more academic papers of the past weeks. They are two classics that deal with great observations about the tensions between simplicity and complexity in building systems.

Systems 101

Systems Programming C++ Scalability 101