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. This helps support over 50 million searches every month on its networks across Italy.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. CCS’19. The Internet Security Research Group.

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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.

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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!

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services. We’ve always focused on getting highly skilled support engineers with all hires requiring the same technical certification process (Tech Bar Raisers) as any of our developers building services. Our customers tell us that the service is 78% better than it was 3 years ago.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. We continuously apply all our innovative skills to the design of datacenters, servers, storage, network, etc. Comments ().

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. It's worth looking at why.

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Software Software Development Government 73

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. 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.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This genetics R&D is crucial for Unliver to develop new products faster; for example comparing a healthy mouth with one with gingivitis - by identifying the shared genes amongst these two can be very helpful in developing the next generation of toothpaste.

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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.,

Performance 52

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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. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 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. Recently I had great conversations with Troy Otillio, Senior Development Manager at Intuit and Jack Murgia, Senior DevOps Engineer at Edmodo. Comments ().

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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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

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. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. 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. For more information on Amazon Glacier visit the detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. All Things Distributed.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. Enter the Preloader.

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Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 22, 2018

2012 was a dark time for responsive images. Thanks to the standards that have been developed around responsive images, it’s a trade-off we no longer need to make. No one pays a higher memory cost than necessary and the network costs can still be kept mostly in check. By now the trade-off is pretty clear.

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Network Availability Performance Development 76

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

A headless CMS gives developers the ability to harness creativity quickly. Here are security measures for Drupal developers. This also gives the developer flexibility during the development stage. This tool saves you money and the time for site development time. Check here for more facts. Headless CMS Pros.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. Consequently, we as developers have 1000ms/60 = 16.6ms to produce each frame, which is also called the “frame budget”.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2012

On May 18, Microsoft is hosting a one-day free technical event for developers who want to write Metro apps for Windows 8 using Visual C++. I’m giving the opening talk, and the rest of the day is full of useful technical information on everything from XAML and DirectX to networking and VC++ compiler flags. Register now!

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C++ Games Internet Internet 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

In those early days, libraries like script.aculo.us, Prototype and eventually jQuery began to gain adoption amongst developers looking to add more interactivity into their pages. Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. What Could Go Wrong? That’s a big problem. Enter Subresource Integrity.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g. I recommend watching Apple’s WWDC 2012 video on UI concurrency to better understand how to build a responsive app. seconds might not be worth it, as the time could be better spent developing better features or other priorities. Further Resources. “

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. However during development and the year of business AWS lowered it prices a number of times such that the project paid back for itself in 8 months. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). Saving money.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. This measures how well the IMDG’s servers use multithreading to maximize network bandwidth during load-balancing, and it also evaluates failure detection and recovery algorithms. Please retry later.

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Cache Servers Network Design 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Otherwise, our site will suffer an overhead from data traveling among different companies’ networks. The simplicity of the solution shows that integrating cloud services into the application is not difficult, and it can also be accomplished by developers who are not much experienced with the cloud. (rb, Creating The Bucket.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Also offers the “Changes” panel by default, located in the same tab bar as the “Styles” Recommended Reading : “ Examine And Edit CSS ,” Firefox Developer Tools, MDN Web Docs. If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. More after jump!

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Those algorithms packaged with scikit-learn?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Lex Crosett, CIO, Earth Networks. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. When customers run their origins in AWS, we expect that our network paths from each CloudFront edge to the various AWS Regions will perform better with less packet loss given that we monitor and optimize these network paths for availability and performance. All Things Distributed.

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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.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. What I Read in 2012. This is a very different book than his other novels in the series, but it’s every bit as enjoyable.

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BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

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. But still, I liked how Moment.js

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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. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate. This was perhaps the most important requirement if we wanted a broad set of users to adopt the service.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights. They own the data – they choose where to store the data and their data would never be moved to optimise the network.

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