All Things Distributed

APRIL 7, 2017

This weekend however I would like to take a break from reading historical computer science material, to catch up on another technology I find fascinating, that of functional Magnetic Resonace Imaging, aka fMRI. The basic technology records brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow through the brain. Poldrack and Martha J.

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AWS Technology Technology 87

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

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”. It’s a highly creative job; using the latest tools and technologies to solve new and novel problems. On my first day, I deployed to production.

Development 98

Development Strategy Infrastructure Metrics 98

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.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 February 2012 09:00 PM. One of the things that differentiates Amazon Web Services from other technology providers is its commitment to let customers benefits from continuous cost-cutting innovations and from the economies of scale AWS is able to achieve. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

Storage 113

Storage AWS Innovation Scalability 113

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012. These technologies don’t always act as part of the full-stack environment but typically expose metrics in Prometheus format.

Metrics 177

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 177

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

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

We have supported the development of technology skills across the region with Training and Certification programs to help customers develop skills to design, deploy, and operate their infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud. You might not know that AWS has a long history of working with customers in the Middle East.

Cloud 154

Cloud Education Energy Government 154

SQL Performance

JULY 11, 2019

There were some complications, as you can imagine; Plan Explorer is written using desktop technologies, and ADS is a whole new world. Connecting to SQL Server 2012 or better, or Azure SQL Database. After some discussion, we brought the concept to the leadership team, and set a plan in motion. or newer ( July announcement post ).NET

Azure 90

Azure Servers Tuning Operating System 90

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 17, 2023

Raymond Chen gives several reasons for why Windows Error Reporting doesn’t restart crashed processes before uploading the report (circa 2012) but I don’t find those reasons entirely compelling, especially in the start-menu case. To be clear, Microsoft has the technology to record traces on start menu hangs on customer machines.

Programming 114

Programming Processing Code Performance 114

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In recent years, this team has released technology such as Support for Health Checks, AWS Trusted Advisor, Support API’s, Trusted Advisor API’s, and many more. In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services.

AWS 134

AWS Energy Innovation Best Practices 134

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It wasn’t until 2012 that I released my first application to the Android Marketplace, now known as the Google Play Store. As of now, I have only been using web technologies to create mobile hybrid applications for Android and iOS. I started developing mobile Android applications in late 2011.

Mobile 40

Mobile Google Technology Technology 40

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. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It’s a fair question, I suppose.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. If those specs sound eerily familiar, it's perhaps because they're identical to 2016's $200USD Moto G4 , all the way down to the 2011-vintage 28nm SoC process node used to fab the chip's anemic, 2012-vintage A53 cores. Tap for a larger version.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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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Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

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 Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We pay a lot of attention to latency here, along with any long-running transactions, because of downstream impact to technologies that use the log reader – like Availability Groups and transactional replication. Recently one of our teams was investigating a log reader latency issue. dm_os_performance_counters.

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Latency Servers Monitoring Systems 57

SQL Performance

AUGUST 15, 2019

There were some complications, as you can imagine; Plan Explorer is written using desktop technologies, and ADS is a whole new world. Connecting to SQL Server 2012 or better, or Azure SQL Database. After some discussion, we brought the concept to the leadership team, and set a plan in motion. or newer ( July announcement post ).NET

Azure 50

Azure Servers Tuning Operating System 50

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You’ve probably heard about Serverless Functions, but if you haven’t, Serverless Functions provide functionality typically associated with server-side technologies that can be implemented alongside front-end code without getting caught up in server-side infrastructures. Paul Scanlon. 2021-10-19T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-19T20:09:25+00:00.

Serverless 111

Serverless Cloud Website Servers 111

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 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.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Time for the long-running (since way back in 2012 !) The responsive image discussion is the Never Ending Story of web technology. annual tradition of listing the top five most popular posts on this site of the past year. Here are 2013’s favorites, in order of popularity. Why We Need Responsive Images.

Media 40

Media Design Technology Technology 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Today, SQS is a key part of this architecture and is used in mission critical backend systems for a myriad of use-cases in the Kindle platform, Amazon Retail Ordering workflow, Amazon Fulfillment technologies, etc. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Efficiency 107

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 107

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. From selecting the right technology, to maintaining multi-site facilities, to dealing with exponential and often unpredictable growth, to ensuring long-term digital integrity, digital archiving can be a major headache. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016. 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

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 ().

Innovation 149

Innovation AWS Education Network 149

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Cennydd explores the ethical considerations of technology in a way that felt fresh even with all the books I’ve been reading on the topic. What I Read in 2012. This latest entry is one of my favorites so far.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Technology Technology 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.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 4, 2012

That reminded me of a snippet from the September 2012 issues of CACM. The article itself was about a different technology, but the Lessons Learned conclusion remind us of the paramount importance of two things: Backward compatibility with simple migration path (“compat”). The lightly annotated conclusion is shown here.

C++ 40

C++ Tuning Programming Engineering 40

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].

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2012

The person hiding risk has a large informational advantage over the one looking for it. -- Nassim Taleb and George Martin, How to Prevent Other Financial Crises , SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 2012 The interests of buyer and builder of any asset are fundamentally divergent.

Hardware 45

Hardware Software Software Development 45

Alex Russell

AUGUST 20, 2015

Recall that in 2012, Google, Apple, Blackberry, and a host of other vendors were all shipping browsers based on a single CSS engine (WebKit) without changing the -webkit- prefixes to be vendor-specific ; e.g. Clearly, a need for new features trumps interoperability and pollution concerns. This is natural and, perhaps even healthy.

Programming 54

Programming Google Infrastructure Engineering 54