Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1. Leonardo Losoviz.

AWS 45

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 45

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Amazon RDS for SQL Server. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

Without this guarantee, SQL Server might add index rows that are not sorted correctly, which would not be good. For INSERT.SELECT , SQL Server makes its own determination whether to ensure rows are presented to the Clustered Index Insert operator in key order or not. DMLRequestSort Conditions.

Cache 67

Cache Servers Testing Storage 67

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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.

AWS 110

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 110

SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

The summary rows for heap tables without indexes are the same in both documents (no changes for SQL Server 2016): An explicit TABLOCK hint is not the only way to meet the requirement for table-level locking. The inputs to this calculation are: The version of SQL Server. The estimated number of rows leading into the Insert operator.

Servers 47

Servers Database Testing Performance 47

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).

Cloud 117

Cloud AWS Storage Database 117

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. SQL Server. set nocount on.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. We consulted directly with Amazon and learned that the storage and the DB Server size affected I/O throughput – after altering our size we dropped our load time to 1 hour which was within expectations relative to native database.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

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 ().

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

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. SQL Server 2014 added the ability to perform parallel batch-mode grouped aggregation within a single Hash Match Aggregate operator. Columnstore storage. Introduction.

Servers 67

Servers Testing Metrics Storage 67

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. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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. In a recent customer engagement, the application needed to load 10M objects into each server of the IMDG’s cluster to make full use of high-end servers with 60GB memory capacity.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

In a partitioned massively parallel database system, the storage format and sorting algorithm may not be optimized for that operation as we are reading multiple partitions in parallel. blockade','arizona'] ? ? protests','occupy','romney','weiner','protesters'] ? ? santorum','returns','martin','obamacare','romney'] ? ?

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 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

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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