Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

Expanding The Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. For more details on the new instance type see the EC2 detail page and the AWS developer blog. (As Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Cloud 129

Cloud Performance AWS Virtualization 129

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

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Organizations across Italy have been using the AWS Cloud for over a decade, using AWS Regions located outside of Italy. In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With server-side and client-side code coexisting in the same code base, front-end developers like myself can extend the reach of what’s possible using the tools they already know and love. and developing in this way is more akin to developing an API ( Application Programming Interface ). npm run develop. Limitations.

Serverless 114

Serverless Cloud Website Servers 114

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. As engineers, we often introduce all sorts of constructs in our architectures (whether in the cloud or on-premise) to compensate for the cases when databases under load do not deliver the rock-solid performance we need to serve our customers. Comments ().

Cloud 117

Cloud AWS Storage Database 117

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. According to the 2023 Kubernetes in the Wild report , 65% of organizations use Prometheus.

Metrics 171

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 171

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. This enables your applications to take advantage of batch pricing more easily, without custom development. Shazam , developers of the mobile discovery app, report using SQS as a buffer for DynamoDB. Comments ().

Efficiency 104

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

Technology developments come in waves. In parallel, network technology developments ensured that centralized mass-sniffing was no longer feasible because of the costs. In 2012, we anticipated the shifts towards cloud infrastructures and microservices. This approach works as long as application traffic can be decrypted.

Network 165

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 165

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. For more information on Amazon Glacier visit the detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. Comments ().

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. Regulators would be wise to get ahead of this development.

Social Media 112

Social Media Google Internet Internet 112

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 17 November 2012 11:00 PM. This weekend I am heading to Brussels for meetings with the European Commission, specifically with Vice-president Neelie Kroes who owns the Digital Agenda for the EU, about how to accelerate cloud usage in both business and government in Europe. Comments ().

Systems 86

Systems Government Cache Scalability 86

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016. In Google I/O’17, Google announced its cloud TPU (also known as TPU2), which can handle both training and inference.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. This application is a great way to highlight how developers might leverage different services, abstractions, and tools to deliver the most value to their customers. It takes a different approach than most other development platforms by exposing the underlying resources. Comments ().

AWS 104

AWS Scalability Java Storage 104

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. This is also a good illustration of one of the really exciting benefits of Cloud Computing â?? All Things Distributed. Comments (). Saving money.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 2, 2012

My team at Microsoft just recently announced Casablanca , a cloud-oriented C++ library and that we intend to open source, and we’re making other even bigger efforts that I hope will bear fruit and I’ll be able to share soon. by Jordan DeLong on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 2:59pm ·.

C++ 42

C++ Open Source Tuning Cloud 42

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Recently I had great conversations with Troy Otillio, Senior Development Manager at Intuit and Jack Murgia, Senior DevOps Engineer at Edmodo. Comments (). hands freeÃ?

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

While distributed cloud-native applications improve operational stability and business agility, the increased risks of an attack have made them less secure. Securing cloud applications requires a layered approach. How RASP capabilities complement other cloud security approaches. Not scalable in cloud-native environments.

Tuning 216

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 216

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In this article, I will describe this latter solution, based on a WordPress application storing files on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) (a cloud object storage solution to store and retrieve data), operating through the AWS SDK. Conclusion. rb, ra, yk, il).

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AWS Servers Storage Cloud 45

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. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. OpsWorks is designed for IT administrators and ops-minded developers who want an easy way to manage applications of nearly any scale and complexity without sacrificing control. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Automated â??

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AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 157

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. Impressive!

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. And just as we started to complain that the crypto miners were snapping up all of the affordable GPU cards, cloud providers stepped up to offer access on-demand. So we can ride that wave of publicity.)

Hardware 103

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 103

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.

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Now you can run queries on any item attributes (columns) in your DynamoDB table.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. As we said at the time, DynamoDB was a result of 15 years of learning in the area of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. These are the apps that have motivated us to develop DAX. Saving crucial milliseconds.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. In the new world of cloud based IT you can change instance types whenever the need arises, exactly matching your needs at all times. For more details see the Reserved Instance detail page , the Reserved Instance Marketplace detail page and the AWS Developer Blog. Comments ().

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AWS Traffic Cloud Innovation 111

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. Credits We would like to thank the following persons for contributing to the development of DBLog: Josh Snyder , Raghuram Onti Srinivasan , Tharanga Gamaethige , and Yun Wang. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. Credits We would like to thank the following persons for contributing to the development of DBLog: Josh Snyder , Raghuram Onti Srinivasan , Tharanga Gamaethige , and Yun Wang. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Customers such as Electronic Arts, News International, SmugMug, Shazam, IMDb, Amazon Cloud Drive, and many others are using DynamoDB to power their applications. ve already passed our 2012 targets. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug. Comments ().

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

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. Impressive!

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. The Moto G7 very much looks the part.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. Comments (). History of NoSQL at Amazon â?? The growth of Amazonâ??s

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167