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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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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. 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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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly

In “ How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology ,” The New York Times reported that One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., To see this, let’s consider another example, that of MegaFace. joined Flickr. She uploaded some pictures of her children, Chloe and Jasper.

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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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