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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Sep 21 - Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency , Cary G.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. KiPageFault is triggered whenever a process touches memory that is not currently in the working set of the process. That is remarkable.

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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

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. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs. Labels we don’t need. Jolly good!

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

All Things Distributed

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Rich client can prefetch batches of incoming messages, so that your application can process the new messages immediately once its through with a current batch. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers - All Things.

All Things Distributed

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. to drive new efficiencies and higher reliability. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services. We’ve reduced AWS prices 27 times since launching 7 years ago, added enterprise service support enhancements, and created innovative tools to help customers be more efficient. Our customers tell us that the service is 78% better than it was 3 years ago.

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

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC: