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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further. Afterward, Envoy behaves as if the cluster was defined in the config.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Cloud C++

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

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., I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance

Performance Latency Hardware Storage

USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

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

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

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

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

Deprecated features to take out of your toolbox – Part 1

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

On the contrary, it is almost always because they have developed better and more modern ways to solve those same problems. The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections.

Latency

Latency Servers Monitoring Systems

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

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., I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance

Performance Latency Hardware Storage

Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. By moving to AWS, Lamborghini was able to prepare the development and test environment in a couple of days. Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017.

AWS

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX): Speed Up DynamoDB Response Times from Milliseconds to Microseconds without Application Rewrite.

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Development of DynamoDB was guided by the core set of distributed systems principles outlined in the Dynamo paper , resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. Saving crucial milliseconds.

Speed

Speed Cache Latency AWS

Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency

Expanding the Cloud ? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Application developers must coordinate multiple distributed components to get the desired results.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Java Scalability

Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Scalability

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

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

Performance Network Cache Metrics

A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system.

Internet

Internet Internet AWS Performance

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source

Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront - All Things.

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. s LBR (Latency Based Routing) to run their origin servers in different AWS Regions.

Cache

Cache Latency AWS Website

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source

As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. In the education sector we have been supporting the development of technology and cloud skills amongst tertiary institutes in the Middle East through the AWS Educate program.

Cloud

Cloud Education Energy Government

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Comments ().

Efficiency

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability

The AWS Storage Gateway - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. VM Import allows our customers to move virtual machine images from their datacenters to the Cloud and Amazon Direct Connect makes the network latencies and bandwidth between on-premises and AWS more predictable.

Storage

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud

Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced.

Google

Google Mobile Engineering Internet

Expanding the Cloud ? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS - All.

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Parse , the very cool mobile development platform that runs on AWS, switched to using Provisioned I/O for EBS to run their databases. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). Contact Info.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Storage Database

AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. This philosophy manifests itself in all areas, including installation, application development, and cluster management. Distributed Cache or In-Memory Data Grid?

Cache

Cache Servers Network Design

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

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

Ecommerce Website Government Internet

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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX): Speed Up DynamoDB Response Times from Milliseconds to Microseconds without Application Rewrite.

Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

Expanding the Cloud ? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All.

Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront - All Things.

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS - All.

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