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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. How would you _time_ time?

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. This is the situation that Apple has engineered on iOS. Cui bono? — who benefits?

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 42 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

Let’s Encrypt was publically announced on November 18th 2014, and began providing service to the public on Decemmber 3rd 2015. In late 2014, it secured financial commitments from Akamai, Cisco, EFF, and Mozilla, allowing the organization to purchase equipment, secure hosting contracts, and pay initial staff. The last word.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

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