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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. When we took a hard look at our storage for the Amazon ecommerce web site in 2005, we realized that the majority of our data needed an object (or key-value) store. 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

For example, in 2005, Dynatrace introduced a distributed tracing tool that allowed developers to implement local tracing and debugging. For observability that scales with cloud-native technologies, organizations need an AI-driven observability platform like Dynatrace. The case for an integrated observability platform.

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It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Application availability and performance measured using network probe technology. Technology developments come in waves. In parallel, network technology developments ensured that centralized mass-sniffing was no longer feasible because of the costs. This approach works as long as application traffic can be decrypted.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up. But this would be no ordinary project.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. Summary Technologically, we live in a diverse world, and challenges are likely to increase as that diversity increases. Interoperability is painful. Since then, things have gotten gradually worse. First came Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

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

All Things Distributed

I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. I have now for the most part replicated the way that my blog was generated in MT but now using Jekyll. APAC Summer Tour. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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.