All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. Comments ().

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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. The SQL Server batch mode implementation of a Bloom filter is optimized for modern CPU cache architectures and is known internally as a complex bitmap. Bitmap Choice.

Servers 75

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Here, native apps are doing work related to their core function; storage and tracking of user data are squarely within the four corners of the app's natural responsibilities. From at least 2012, Apple has deigned to allow "competing browsers" in its App Store. Small Changes to Restore Choice #.

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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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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. s architecture and underlying platform are also optimized to deliver high performance for data warehousing workloads. Redshift has a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, which enables it to distribute and parallelize queries across multiple low cost nodes. Comments ().

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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 (). The growth of Amazonâ??s

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

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