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. This was extended to instance storage devices for the x1.32xlarge in 2016.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB retains compatibility with MySQL, offers support for different programming languages, including Python, PHP, Java, and Perl, and works with all major open source storage engines such as MyRocks, Aria, and InnoDB. Elevate your MariaDB environment with Percona Support for MariaDB.

Open Source 52

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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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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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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

For SQL Server 2012 and earlier, this means 5 extra bytes per row are included in the data size calculation: One byte for an internal bit flag, and four bytes for the uniquifier (used in the calculation even for unique indexes, which do not store a uniquifier ). SQL Server 2012. fn_dblog ( NULL , NULL ) AS FD WHERE.

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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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All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. Magnetic disks are rapidly starting to exhibit tape-like properties and with modern workloads being increasingly random, they are becoming less and less suitable as a storage system. For more details on the new instance type see the EC2 detail page and the AWS developer blog. (As

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

The following demo script should be run on a development instance in a new test database set to use the SIMPLE recovery model. For SQL Server 2012 and earlier , the transition point for this particular table is 898 rows. In SQL Server 2012 and earlier, the calculation is performed by sqllang!OptimizerUtil::ComputeRowLength.

Servers 47

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously.

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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 ().

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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. This was extended to instance storage devices for the x1.32xlarge in 2016.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Saving money.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Recently I had great conversations with Troy Otillio, Senior Development Manager at Intuit and Jack Murgia, Senior DevOps Engineer at Edmodo. and took near zero development effort. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). hands freeÃ?

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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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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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SQL Performance

APRIL 23, 2019

In SQL Server 2012, grouped (vector) aggregation was able to use parallel batch-mode execution, but only for the partial (per-thread) aggregate. Columnstore storage. To understand this, it is necessary to first review how columnstore storage works at a high level: A compressed row group contains a column segment for each column.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. This philosophy manifests itself in all areas, including installation, application development, and cluster management. Microsoft recommends not storing more than 16GB in a cache host to avoid GC pauses.)

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. These interactions allow me to understand their emerging needs, which I take back to our development teams to further iterate on our services. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Today, I’m thrilled to announce several major features that significantly enhance the development experience on DynamoDB. These improvements have been sought by many applications developers, and we are happy to be bringing them to you. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. NoSQL and Scale.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As you may remember from our announcement at re: Invent in November 2012, Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that delivers fast query performance at less than one tenth the cost of most traditional data warehouse systems. Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. The Amazon.com ecommerce platform consists of hundreds of decoupled services developed and managed in a decentralized fashion. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments (). The growth of Amazonâ??s

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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

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. This is an extended version of an article that appeared in the Guardian today.

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