Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. That means, necessarily, that all of the L2 traffic came out through the top of the L2 cache and then made its way to the three different CPUs. Since the Xbox 360 CPU ran at 3.2 nanoseconds for the signals to propagate that 5.5 mm distance!

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. It worked for most TCP traffic types but not others, which I warned about in the script comments. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I don't think he even said thank you.

Open Source 144

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 144

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. It worked for most TCP traffic types but not others, which I warned about in the script comments. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I don't think he even said thank you.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167