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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. Interoperability is painful.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Some participants were served pages at normal speeds over WiFi, while others were served pages at a consistently slowed-down speed (using software that created an artificial 500-millisecond network delay). In the study, participants were asked to complete standardized shopping tasks on four ecommerce sites while using a smartphone.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. If we're going to have organizations of networked information workers, we have to embrace a different metaphor: the organization as a brain. What happened?

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. Regional isolation.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. This is more than the median improvement in network speeds during the same period, which results in slower loading times. Upgrading Our Services And Infrastructure.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network.

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