The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It brought a whole range of additional features such as spatial scalability, region of interest coding, range of supported bit-depths, flexible number of color planes, lossless coding, etc. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40