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.

AWS 132

AWS Energy Innovation Best Practices 132

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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:

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. Through adopting a cloud first policy, they have helped to reduce the government procurement process for new technology from months to less than two weeks.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

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. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

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%. But over time, something went very wrong. The market was maturing.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

In 2012, Gartner coined the term RASP to characterize this approach, which brings the security perimeter right to the application itself. RASP capabilities aim to close the gap left by application security testing and network perimeter controls such as web application firewalls (WAFs). The benefits of RASP. Eliminate false positives.

Tuning 223

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 223

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. A ServiceWorker is a short-lived , isolated JavaScript scope running in a separate thread, functioning as a proxy for every network request originating from pages of the same origin. It is spawned (and owned) by a page.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. A customer I recently met had executed a consolidation project for 20 types of invoice processing on AWS with the calculation that the project would pay back for itself in 2 years. While agility changes everything for a business, saving money in the process continue to be a good thing.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. The region must be the same one as where our application is deployed, so that accessing S3 during the process execution is fast. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3.

AWS 44

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. Advantages of full backups Full backups provide several benefits in terms of safeguarding data and facilitating recovery processes, as they encompass thorough data replication and enable complete system restoration during critical situations.

Storage 68

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 68

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.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

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. Similarly, Monte Carlo simulations can help us spot trends and outliers in potential outcomes of a process.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. AWS EC2 uses a different image type and boot process for PV and HVM, as described on the [Linux AMI Virtualization Types] page. The first was c3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you scroll a table view quickly, a lot of small chunks of memory will be allocated on the fly, and this process will make the UI janky! UI Preservation Process. UI Restoration Process. Pass Heavy Processing Functions To Background Threads (GCD). Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g.

Performance 76

Performance Energy Operating System Code 76

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.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. In addition, there is support for including it in many build processes, such as postCSS (the method I use). It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. From at least 2012, Apple has deigned to allow "competing browsers" in its App Store.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. What Could Go Wrong? file hosted as part of their own website on their own server.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Redshift has a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, which enables it to distribute and parallelize queries across multiple low cost nodes. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). Amazon Redshiftâ??s

Cloud 164

Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 164

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. AWS EC2 uses a different image type and boot process for PV and HVM, as described on the [Linux AMI Virtualization Types] page. The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these goals in mind, In January, 2012 we launched Amazon DynamoDB , our cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Every millisecond that is spent querying a database and waiting for a key piece of data is time that they could otherwise use to make better decisions, process more data, or improve calculations to place a more accurate bid.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.). Here are the contenders I am going to compare (using SQL Server 2012, 11.00.2316, on a Windows 7 VM with 4 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM): CLR. A lot of things change over the course of a few major versions of our favorite database platform.

C++ 59

C++ Servers Testing Database 59

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. Processed 4.15 Processed 4.15 Processed 8.19 Processed 8.19 Processed 4.15 Processed 3.05

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Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40