All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

Back when S3 launched on March 14, 2006 (also known as “Pi Day” to some), iPhones didn’t exist, neither did tweets or likes, Facebook was still only used by a few colleges and universities, and you couldn’t hail a ride or order lunch with an app. At the time, the universe of data storage lived in blocks and files.

Ecommerce 216

Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 216

Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

sec) service mysql restart mysql> select * from users; ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away No connection. MySQL 8’s solution MySQL 8 addresses the auto-increment counter loss issue in the InnoDB storage engine upon server restart. mysql> select version(); + --+ | version() | + --+ | 5.7.42-46

Servers 108

Servers Storage Database Open Source 108

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1.

AWS 44

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

Storage 72

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 72

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

The challenge is that accurate data isn’t available immediately, and cloud providers currently only provide monthly carbon data, with several months lag. I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147