Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. There are sessions in many different categories: Architecture, Big Data, HPC, Computer & Networking, Storage, Databases, Security, Tools & Languages, Media Sharing & Content Delivery, Managing AWS Resources, Enterprise IT, Mobile, Start-up, and more. All Things Distributed.

AWS 83

AWS Big Data Media Storage 83

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. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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. One of the services that is very successful in driving innovation at our customers in this context is Amazon RDS , the Relational Database Service. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 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. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). Direct seeding of new database replicas. Increased number of auto-failover targets.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Unlike traditional row-based relational databases, which store data for each row sequentially on disk, Amazon Redshift stores each column sequentially. This means that Redshift performs much less wasted IO than a row-based database because it doesnâ??t Expanding the Cloud â??

Cloud 164

Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 164

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services. for those datasets that are too large to transmit via the network AWS offers the ability to up- and download data from disks that can be shipped. Comments ().

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

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. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

Many Jamstack sites created with static site generators like Gridsome, Hugo or Gatsby make use of the headless CMS to manage content, they cannot access a database, Hence content can be stored in a headless CMS and fetched through an API during build time and deployed as static files. Gridsome, Gatsby). Mobile Apps (iOS, Android).

Open Source 103

Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.). A lot of things change over the course of a few major versions of our favorite database platform. Here are the contenders I am going to compare (using SQL Server 2012, 11.00.2316, on a Windows 7 VM with 4 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM): CLR. CREATE FUNCTION dbo.

C++ 59

C++ Servers Testing Database 59

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98