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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

15 years is a long time in the world of technology. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. You can't make this stuff up. DTraceToolkit v0.96

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course!

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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