All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL. We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. they can can be two orders of magnitude faster than FastBitSet.js.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. During the winter holiday season, the use of the app increases by up to 300% and AWS allows them to seamlessly scale up to cope with the increase in traffic.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

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. Storage I/O. Networking. Networking. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

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. Storage I/O. Networking. Networking. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124