All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Also, because similar data are stored sequentially, Amazon Redshift can compress data efficiently, which further reduces the amount of IO it needs to perform to return results. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

With OpsWorks you can create a logical architecture, provision resources based on that architecture, deploy your applications and all supporting software and packages in your chosen configuration, and then operate and maintain the application through lifecycle stages such as auto-scaling events and software updates. Automated â??

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It is required for a database to execute this query efficiently, which typically applies for systems that implement range scans over primary keys. DBLog High Level Architecture. High Availability DBLog uses active-passive architecture. Chunking a table with 4 columns c1-c4 and c1 as the primary key (pk). Figure 3?—?DBLog

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It is required for a database to execute this query efficiently, which typically applies for systems that implement range scans over primary keys. DBLog High Level Architecture. High Availability DBLog uses an active-passive architecture. Chunking a table with 4 columns c1-c4 and c1 as the primary key (pk). Figure 3?—?DBLog

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). Efficient Queries. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. The significant savings is because you are using your resources efficiently, only when you need them, stopping them after your peak traffic subsides, and not paying anything when you donâ??t Massive economies of scale and efficiency improvements allow AWS to continually lower prices.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls. Nitro's performance is near-metal.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. Bloom filters present a space- and time-efficient alternative when a simple bitmap is infeasible due to space requirements. This article is about batch mode bitmaps, which have a very different implementation.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. This architectural pattern was a response to the scaling challenges that had challenged Amazon.com through its first 5 years, when direct database access was one of the major bottlenecks in scaling and operating the business. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls. Nitro's performance is near-metal.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

From at least 2012, Apple has deigned to allow "competing browsers" in its App Store. In particular, folks will undoubtedly note that "alternative browsers" were available in the App Store much earlier, including a Chrome-branded app since at least 2012. Small Changes to Restore Choice #.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. Zhang, 2012. Nakanishi, 2010.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. High availability apparently is not available on Windows Server 2008R2 Standard Edition and requires Enterprise Edition, which can cost about $2,800 more per server, or you must upgrade to Windows Server 2012.)

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