All Things Distributed
APRIL 27, 2011
The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. All Things Distributed.
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty).
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Percona
MARCH 30, 2023
This comprehensive overview examines open source database architecture, types, pros and cons, uses by industry, and how open source databases compare with proprietary databases. Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing.
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. Comments ().
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 19, 2011
AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. This team is constantly rethinking the assumptions behind how traditional databases were built and constantly working on building the right database architectures suited for the Cloud environment.
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