Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. But how does FaaS fit in?

Development 247

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 247

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Problems include provisioning and deployment; load balancing; securing interactions between containers; configuration and allocation of resources such as networking and storage; and deprovisioning containers that are no longer needed. How does container orchestration work? The post What is container orchestration?

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 182

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

It gave us the opportunity to invent a new database architecture that would address to needs of modern cloud-scale applications, departing from the traditional approaches that had their roots in the databases of nineties. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. It's all a bit confusing, and I wrote about this in 2014: [Xen Modes]. This was extended to instance storage devices for the x1.32xlarge in 2016.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company. For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone.

Code 93

Code Storage Scalability Engineering 93

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] , 2021 [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] , Apr 2021 [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52