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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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed.

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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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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. Ballooning bandwidth and storage have fostered complacency that we can do without. It’s a fair question, I suppose. But I’m not sure if that’s the case here.

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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. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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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.

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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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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. It's no wonder that few commenters are connecting the dots. [2].

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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. Columnstore storage. To understand this, it is necessary to first review how columnstore storage works at a high level: A compressed row group contains a column segment for each column.

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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. High availability apparently is not available on Windows Server 2008R2 Standard Edition and requires Enterprise Edition, which can cost about $2,800 more per server, or you must upgrade to Windows Server 2012.)

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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. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.) Cloud computing? “What if we leave an hour earlier?”

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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. Comments ().

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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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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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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

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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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