All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

15 years is a long time in the world of technology. 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. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

Ecommerce 216

Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 216

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. 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

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. 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

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

As ​​ the ​​ administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, ​​ you will find that ​​ visibility into ​​ the ​​ SQL Server ​​ I/O ​​ subsystem ​​ has been ​​ significantly increased.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Neal, Matt, and others from Windows Storage, Windows Azure Storage, Windows Hyper-V, … validating Windows behaviors. · Any storage device that can survive a power outage. Starting with the Linux 4.18

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40