All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF makes it very easy for developers to architect and implement these tasks, run them in the cloud or on premise and coordinate their flow. Expanding the Cloud â??

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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! Ford, et al., “TCP

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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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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. Selecting the best AWS region for Origin Fetch. AWS Region for the origin fetch. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. All aboard the Databus!:

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. All aboard the Databus!:

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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.

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