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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

I don’t advocate “Serverless Only”, and I recommended that if you need sustained high traffic, low latency and higher efficiency, then you should re-implement your rapid prototype as a continuously running autoscaled container, as part of a larger serverless event driven architecture, which is what they did.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments (). blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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%. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Expanding the Cloud â??

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

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.