Percona Community

JUNE 8, 2018

Since summer 2017, Amazon RDS supports encryption at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for db.t2.small medium database instances, making the feature now available to virtually every instance class and type. small and db.t2.medium micro, every other instance class now supports native encryption at rest using KMS.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Database Availability 40

All Things Distributed

JUNE 30, 2017

So much so, that in March 2017, we announced Amazon Connect, which is the result of nearly ten years of work to build cloud-based contact centers at scale to power customer service for more than 50 Amazon teams and subsidiaries, including Amazon.com, Zappos, and Audible. AI has incredible potential in this area.

Artificial Intelligence 128

Artificial Intelligence Lambda AWS Virtualization 128

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

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage. Not necessarily: Java-related searches increased by 5% between 2017 and 2018. Coincidence?

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the skip to the end if you want my take on those.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 13, 2017

got a lot smoother at re:Invent 2017. A thousand-times scaled Lambda could easily cause significant performance problems to a modest SQL database server. Because of this it is strongly recommended that, at the very least, you use separate AWS accounts for production and testing?—?deliberately One of those edges?—?that

Lambda 40

Lambda AWS Architecture Database 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. This service is immediately available in all AWS regions. With the launch of Amazon Time Sync Service, AWS regions are equipped with similar GPS and atomic clocks.

AWS 55

AWS Google Database Virtualization 55

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 I’m using the “Airlines On-Time Performance” database from [link] (You can find the scripts I used here: [link] ). Here is a summary of the queries: Simple queries: select count(*) from ontime where flightdate > '2017-01-01'.

Cache 46

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 46

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. 2 However, you don’t need to know how Transformers work to use large language models effectively, any more than you need to know how a database works to use a database.

Google 104

Google Open Source Programming Code 104

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. IBM OpenWhisk, Microsoft Azure, AWS Lambda, and Google Cloud Functions are famous names that provide server-less services. Serverless Computing – AWS Lambda – Amazon Web Services. Pinterest PWA: Pins increased by 401%. AI-powered Chatbots.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Depending on how much dynamic data you have, you might be able to "outsource" some part of the content to a static site generator , pushing it to a CDN and serving a static version from it, thus avoiding database requests. An interesting way of avoiding parsing costs is to use binary templates that Ember has introduced in 2017.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104