Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. which provides this as a service and where the chief architect and CTO are both ex-Netflix colleagues of mine.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost.

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76