All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support. We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business.

Ecommerce 216

Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 216

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40