All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14.

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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., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

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High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018).

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Internet Internet Google Scalability 116

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

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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., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

One of my favorite parts of the week is being able to host three startup-focused sessions Thursday afternoon: The Startup Scene in 2016: a Visionary Panel [Thursday, 2:45PM]. This is the place to be for free food, drinks, and networking during the Wednesday night re:Invent pub crawl. Look forward to seeing you in Vegas!

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider? The Rise of Cloud Computing.

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. But over time, something went very wrong. These companies did continue to innovate.

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption. AWS is working with incubators and accelerators such as SeedCamp and Techstars , in London; Ignite100 in Newcastle; and DotForge in Sheffield and Manchester to help startups make the most of the cloud.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. In addition, we are working with the venture capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help startups grow in the cloud. They rely on the AWS Cloud for their entire infrastructure and use almost every AWS service available. " Hemnet.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016. As shown in Figure 11-5, when it launched, Pokémon GO used Google’s regional Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load-balance ingress traffic across a Kubernetes cluster.

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Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

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. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Testsigma, a completely cloud-based test automation tool uses AI technology in software testing to save time, costs and smoothen out the learning curve of the testers.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler. x series.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Yup, in the cloud. Things To Consider When Choosing A Headless CMS. Microservices architecture. Omnichannel. For content authors.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations. To run our applications, we require computing system resources like CPU, memory, disk, and network bandwidth to be allocated to the critical data services that power the applications.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

it’s increasingly becoming a core compute element within the larger Amazon cloud. Cloud9 is, at its most simple, a cloud hosted IDE. to a massively distributed CDN network a possibility. but of course a good cloud architect is never satisfied and there were a few things missing that I hoped, and frankly expected, to see.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

billion in 2016. The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks. Automation Via Distributed Cloud. Try Testsigma and experience the benefits of cloud-based test automation.

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Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

It has been since 2016 that a major IT firm WIPRO has been pushing for the application of hyper-automation to all their processes in their own firm. Automation Via Distributed Cloud. The Cloud Computing trend is expected to evolve better by transforming into a distributed cloud in 2020.

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