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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Nichols, M.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. I am in SÃ£o Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. Staged Event-Driven Architecture. Staged Event-Driven Architecture. Comments ().

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Architecture AWS Internet Internet

AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

Virtualization

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage

Expanding the Cloud ? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS - All.

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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Cloud AWS Storage Database

Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper.

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Comments (). And how about you Troy?

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. AWS OpsWorks Unique Features.

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AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure

Expanding the Cloud ? Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon Redshift enables customers to obtain dramatically increased query performance when analyzing datasets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more, using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. Comments (). Amazon Redshiftâ?? Amazon.comâ??s

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Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability

Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? - All Things.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. From building infinitely scalable data stores, architectures for high performance computing, to the challenges imposed by the CAP theorem, there are wonderful, complex, fascinating problems to be solved in the area of distributed computing.

AWS

AWS Scalability Innovation Architecture

Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront - All Things.

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. These performance optimizations are available for all types of content (static and dynamic) delivered via CloudFront. Selecting the best AWS region for Origin Fetch. AWS Region for the origin fetch. All Things Distributed.

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Cache Latency AWS Website

Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale.Together at last

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. address[0].city.

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Availability Performance Scalability AWS

Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug - All.

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Comments ().

Games

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games

Games Scalability Database Retail

Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. While a service-oriented architecture addressed the problems of a centralized database architecture, each service was still using traditional data management systems.

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