All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose.

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AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

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. The importance of the network. AWS has come to support many different workloads; from high-volume transaction processing to video transcoding at scale, from high-performance parallel computing to massive web site traffic. No gatekeepers.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, both real and virtual. Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow. Let's start with a wide-angle look at how we humans handle waiting, in all its forms.

Speed 133

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Energy data at the entire machine or raw cloud instance level needs to be apportioned to virtual machines or cloud instances which run an operating system, and to pods, containers and processes running applications and background activities that consume CPU, memory and I/O resources.

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Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52