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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. No Server Required. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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

All Things Distributed

In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM. Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. I had held out implementing an alternative to my simple blog server that had. Comments (). Expanding the Cloud â??

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