Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 169

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 169

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. You can then off load the management and scaling of your database and application stack to Amazon RDS and AWS Elastic Beanstalk , and focus on adding value to your customers. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

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

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. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111