All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?” adrianco : The AWS EC2 NTP service has been backed by atomic clocks for the last few years. If you’re already on AWS then trial EKS but it doesn’t really give you that much currently.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 11 March 2013 04:00 PM. I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js allows these developers to handle a large number of concurrent connections with low latencies. Comments (). along with Git.

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AWS Mobile Games Java 105

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources. instances, then creating an AWS IAM policy that permits the modify action on these â??productionâ??

Cloud 116

Cloud AWS Database Scalability 116

All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

As you all know security, privacy, and protection of our customer’s data is our number one priority and as such we work very closely with regulators to ensure that customers can be assured that they are getting the right protections when processing and storing data in the AWS.

Processing 126

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 15 May 2013 06:30 PM. You can see from the pace at which we roll out new functionality that teams across AWS take this very seriously. For more details see the DynamoDB Developer Guide and for an overview visit the AWS developer blog. DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!). Comments ().

AWS 113

AWS Scalability Systems Performance 113

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. these are core principles for every AWS service. A lot of the power of AWS comes from the fact that we can invest in expertise in these sorts of areas and spread the benefits across all our customers. Amazon Redshift starts with the security foundation underlying all AWS services.

Design 112

Design AWS Hardware Media 112

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction. It was welcomed by many, especially developers, whose language tends to be of objects and structures, not of rows and columns.

Open Source 79

Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

As you all know security, privacy, and protection of our customer’s data is our number one priority and as such we work very closely with regulators to ensure that customers can be assured that they are getting the right protections when processing and storing data in the AWS.

Processing 61

Processing AWS Media Education 61

All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. Composite Hash Key with Range Key allows the developer to create a primary key that is the composite of two attributes, a â??hash Some of these developers who were used to the broad query flexibility offered by relational databases asked us to add more query functionality to DynamoDB.

Cloud 116

Cloud Latency Games Scalability 116

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

AWS, however, has taken a significant leap from our last report, where they now average 77.4% AWS was not the only cloud provider to grow – we found that 19.4% of #PostgreSQL cloud deployments are run on AWS Click To Tweet. of organizations have developed a custom solution for PostgreSQL VACUUM, and 4.2%

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. So, what makes DigitalOcean a compelling alternative to other popular MongoDB hosting providers like AWS and Azure ?

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. As with all the AWS Application Management services AWS OpsWorks is provided at no additional charge. AWS customers only pay for those resources that they have used.

AWS 157

AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 157

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In order to achieve this level of availability, we leverage an N+1 architecture where we treat Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions as fault domains, allowing us to withstand single region failures. Though this evacuation capability exists today, this level of resiliency wasn’t always the standard for the Netflix API.

Traffic 190

Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 190

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

Some HashiCorp competitors are making sure to showcase their OSS License as a competitive advantage, with developers and DevOps teams concerned about the change. These companies include Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, Sentry, and MariaDB, which developed this license in 2013. They can be either service based (i.e.,

Open Source 75

Open Source Government Software Software 75

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

In a predictable discovery, we found that Amazon Web Services (AWS) claimed the majority at 55% of use for all PostgreSQL hosting activities in a public cloud environment. PostgreSQL is entirely community-driven with free support from developers around the world who share their expertise with their fellow users.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 15 February 2013 12:01 AM. Virginia) Region, with additional AWS Regions planned for the coming months. I tell developers all the time to plan for failure and to design their systems around it. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

Design 112

Design AWS Storage Systems 112

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

The most common programming task that a typical software developer has to deal with is: receiving input, transforming it, and producing output. One of the key realizations one develops when integrating components of unequal capacities is that flow control is not optional, but mandatory. AWS, Kafka, Google Cloud, Spring, ElasticSearch).

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny! Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145