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

All Things Distributed

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.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. Consider for a moment a software system for a hospital emergency room. How do we integrate these two systems?

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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. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up. tools (2006).

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off. The first practical modern implementation is probably C-Store by Stonebraker, et al.

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An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2005: Fiona Apple , Extraordinary Machine. I might have picked Fiona Apple again, but she already has a 2005 spot. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). Same for Eminem.

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