Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Then came the coup de grace — the aforementioned stack-invasive SSPL. The effects have hit cloud vendors who can’t possibly compete with MongoDB.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. You can follow Steve on Twitter @ souders or watch his talks on YouTube. Philip Tellis.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs. One of these systems is Marken , a scalable service used to persist feature values as annotations, which are versioned and strongly typed constructs associated with Netflix media entities such as videos and artwork.

Media 290

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. After the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

A key pattern that is understood by the tech giants, who have mastered the Age of Software, is that of network effects and exponential growth. Following the 2007-08 financial crisis, Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati and his team analyzed 4,700 public companies to determine which business strategies work for navigating recessions.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109