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.

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Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 216

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. For example, in 2005, Dynatrace introduced a distributed tracing tool that allowed developers to implement local tracing and debugging. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

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Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 177

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.

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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.

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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. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.

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. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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