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.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

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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). The rapid acceleration in technology brought on a new discovery and paradigm.

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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 (). And how about you Troy?

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

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. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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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. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Understanding how mobile OSes undermine browser choice requires a nuanced understanding of OS and browser technology. 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.

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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. Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. Please retry later.

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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. 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.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. They contain large amounts of locally attached storage on multiple spindles and are connected by a minimally oversubscribed 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. s MPP architecture makes it easy to resize your cluster to keep pace with your storage and performance requirements.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL." " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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