All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Often we think about innovation as doing new things or based on revolutionary new technologies such as DynamoDB, but it is more important to ensure that one can also innovate based on existing paradigms. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2012

The person hiding risk has a large informational advantage over the one looking for it. -- Nassim Taleb and George Martin, How to Prevent Other Financial Crises , SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 2012 The interests of buyer and builder of any asset are fundamentally divergent.

Hardware 45

Hardware Software Software Development 45

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. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

Virtualization 111

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Cloud computing?

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 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. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. Hardware gets better, sure. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It makes sense.

Performance 111

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. Try SQL Server 2016 Today.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Mind The Gap. Tap for a larger version.

Performance 124

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Understanding how mobile OSes undermine browser choice requires a nuanced understanding of OS and browser technology. The power dynamics of these situations are starkly different, even though "web technology" is used to render content in each case. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. How bad is the situation?

Google 121

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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. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform.

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