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 The company is burning through cash. $3B 3B this year, $4B next year.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. He hasn’t changed.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. Most of the changes since rc7 are actually networking fixes, the bulk of them to various drivers. When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc. in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data.

AWS 166

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 166