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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization. There’s a network traffic driven allocation of the energy use of the network switches that connect computers. There are also control plane overheads, shared storage volumes and supporting services to instrument.

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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. This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic.

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