Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In February 2012 I began working for a new company. Back in 2012, my CTO was passionate about “every developer pushing [meaningful] code to production on their first day”. Delightful Local Development Environment Naturally, developers spend a large amount of their time using their computer to build software systems.

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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. The Internet Security Research Group.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture. Comments (). Contact Info.

Architecture 98

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 98

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. It's worth looking at why.

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Software Software Development Government 73

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

Performance 140

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. This includes system integration (SI) and independent software vendor (ISV) partners who have built cloud practices and innovative technology solutions using AWS. Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. The software that powers todayâ??s 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.

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 6, 2016

This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. Else use Software algorithms. Windows 2012 R2 and newer releases have been enlightened the Crypto* APIs. Version of SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016 using the Crypto* APIs take advantage of the hardware implementations through the API support.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Randon ASCII

JANUARY 17, 2023

Note that WER stands for Windows Error Reporting – the system that sends crash dumps back to Microsoft for analysis so that software reliability can be improved. Correlation is not causation , but it sure is suspicious. If so then you are presumably seeing this bug. Waiting on upload.

Programming 114

Programming Processing Code Performance 114

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 07 September 2012 03:00 PM. Adaptive load sharing in homogeneous distributed systems , D Eager, ED Lazowska and J Zahorjan - IEEE transactions on software engineering, 1986. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

Software Engineering 88

Software Engineering Scalability Engineering Systems 88

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in Australia as well. Expanding the Cloud â?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency 118

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 September 2012 05:00 PM. You can download the CryptDB software from here. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB. Comments (). blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels. CTO - Amazon.com.

Operating System 83

Operating System Storage Scalability Database 83

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Customers are frequently surprised to hear we have a Support organization that not only helps customers via email, phone, chat or web cases, but also builds innovative software to deliver better customer experiences. In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services.

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Yes, pretty much, and in fact we already reached or exceeded that in 2011 and 2012: Lower estimate line: In 2011 and 2012 parts, Intel Core i7 Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge are delivering almost the expected lower baseline, and offering 8-way and 12-way parallelism = 4-6 cores x 2 hardware threads per core. Well, Intel Core i7 (e.g.,

Hardware 40

Hardware Programming Scalability Software 40

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

On September 12, we shipped VC++ 2012 with the complete C++11 standard library, and adding support for C++11 range- for , enum class , override and final. Interest and investment in C++ continues to accelerate across the software world. Links: VC++ November 2012 CTP announcement. (minor) C++ at Microsoft.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Software teams can reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing, even if they don’t make devices themselves. Durable software not only saves the expense of frequent product overhauls; it also reduces the temptation of unnecessary device upgrades. This is a point Cennydd Bowles made in his excellent book, Future Ethics.

Performance 111

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. The AWS Storage Gateway is a service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments (). s storage infrastructure.

Storage 116

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 116

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. Flexibility is in the choice of software and languages running on AWS, in the tools and interfaces available to manipulate resources and applications, and in the ability to leverage services from other providers. All Things Distributed. A Thousand Platforms. Comments ().

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AWS Scalability Java Storage 106

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You can read more about how I did that here: Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe. By abstracting this functionality away into an API built with Gatsby Functions I was able to achieve what I wanted with MDX Embed and also re-use the same functionality and enable “Pay what you want” functionality for my blog.

Serverless 111

Serverless Cloud Website Servers 111

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 22, 2016

Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The three types of CMemThread partitioning and associated details are described in my previous post: [link].

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Servers Azure Software Engineering Design 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Follow-up.

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Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 21, 2012

The first panel from C++ and Beyond 2012 is now available on Channel 9: On Static If, C++11 in 2012, Modern Libraries, and Metaprogramming. Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter. Channel 9 was invited to this year’s C++ and Beyond to film some sessions (that will appear on C9 over the coming months!)…

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C++ Availability Development Software 40

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 29, 2012

Here’s another deep session for C&B 2012 on August 5-8 – if you haven’t registered yet, register soon. But there’s just so much about C++11 to cover, so here’s a fourth brand-new session I’ll do at C&B 2012 that goes deeper on its topic than I’ve ever been willing to go before. This session in one word: Deep. It’ll be a blast.

Hardware 40

Hardware C++ Code Design 40

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. In today’s data-driven world, the protection and reliability of our valuable information is vital. The potential impact of data loss or corruption on individuals and organizations cannot be understated.

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Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 69

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. Use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or your favorite query editor to connect to a SQL Server 2012 or 2014 instance. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer. DEMO – It Just Runs: DBCC CheckDB.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid."

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Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 12, 2012

Last week at the Lang.NEXT 2012 conference in Redmond, I gave a 40-minute C++ talk and participated on a native languages panel. " And the panel (my favorite highlight is at 24:00-28:00 ): Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages Walter Bright, Robert Griesemer, Andrei Alexandrescu, Herb Sutter. I hope you enjoy them.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores.

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Due to concerns in the open source software community about the future of MySQL after the acquisition, MariaDB was created in 2009 by Michael Widenius (one of the original creators of MySQL), who named the new software after his daughter Maria. GA 11 April 2012 5.5.23 Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 GA 28 April 2011 5.5.11-20.2

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Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

2012 will see us continue to build out multicore with mainstream quad- and eight-core tablets (as Windows 8 brings a modern tablet experience to x86 as well as ARM), and the last single-core gaming console holdout will go multicore (as Nintendo’s Wii U replaces Wii). iPad 2, Playbook, Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet) and smartphones (e.g.,

Hardware 40

Hardware Games Operating System Software 40

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 2, 2012

by Jordan DeLong on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 2:59pm ·. As engineers here, we use, contribute to, and release a lot of open source software, including pieces of our core infrastructure such as HipHop and Thrift. Facebook is built on open source from top to bottom, and could not exist without it.

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