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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Warm capacity. End-users can request compute resources (e.g.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This data is from the 2007 presentation. It is not surprising that there is a lot of scatter, but the factor of four range in Peak MFLOPS at fixed SPECfp_rate2000/core and the factor of four range in SPECfp_rate2000/core at fixed Peak MFLOPS was higher than I expected… (Also from the 2007 presentation.)

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 42 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Typically a good value is 70%-80% of available memory. have been released since then with some major changes. Static) – Requires MySQL restart for change. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Durable and Highly-Available – DynamoDB maintains data durability and 99.99 This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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