Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

allthingsdistributed.com) point to same location where for example www.allthingsdistributed.com is pointing to jump through complex redirect hoops. To support the continuous growth of the Internet it is essential that IPv6 will be enabled. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Although there are some good examples that come with Cactus is still early days and there is not much of a community using it. Subscribe to this weblogs.

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. A simple example is the situation with Persons and Telephones; a person has a name, a person can have one or more telephones and each phone can have one or more telephone numbers. Amazon Route 53.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. or rss feed.

Wireless 107

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For example, a mobile application where users can play different types of media from the internet may want to switch to the strongest network connection available. When dealing with user data, it is important to ensure that user data remains secure in all stages of collection, storage and processing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Network Analytics 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

For example a number of our European customers are subject to data residency requirements when it comes to PII data and they use the EU Region to meet to those requirements. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The pipelines can be stateful and the engine’s middleware should provide a persistent storage to enable state checkpointing. Consider an example where the data is grouped by a string key and sum of the numerical values is computed in each group: In this example, computation consists of two steps: local aggregation and global aggregation.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

As examples of such services I always use Twillio (voice &sms) and Simplegeo (location), but it is time to start building out my knowledge of all the different services that are in the ecosystem. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. For example, objects stored in the EU (Ireland) Region never leave the EU. For example, there is a large European Insurance company that is looking to expand their EU-based product offerings to the Asia Pacific market.

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Below is an example of the Netatmo PWA. On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. Check out how the “Add to Home Screen” feature works on the example below taken on the Apivita Magento PWA. You need a site for that. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

But customers have also asked us for more flexibility and control in the way that Amazon EC2 instances are booted such that they have finer grained control over for example what software configurations and data sets are available to the instance at boot time. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Subscribe to this weblogs.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Further computationally intensive, highly parallel workloads have found their way to Amazon EC2 as businesses have explored using HPC types of algorithms for other application categories, for example to to process very large unstructured data sets for Business Intelligence applications. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Metrics for each service instance are presented in detailed charts—see the example for ECS below.

AWS 136

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 136

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Metrics for each service instance are presented in detailed charts—see the example for ECS below.

AWS 133

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Ideally these applications will periodically save their state into, for example, EBS or Amazon S3 and upon restart read the last saved state and continue their work. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. or rss feed.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Take Peterborough City Council as an example. With the launch of the AWS Europe (London) Region, AWS can enable many more UK enterprise, public sector and startup customers to reduce IT costs, address data locality needs, and embark on rapid transformations in critical new areas, such as big data analysis and Internet of Things.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. Taking an average , for example, would hide a lot of bad experiences people have. Large preview ).

Google 93

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. Non-relational databases: Instead of tables, non-relational (NoSQL) databases use document-based data storage, column-oriented storage, and graph databases.

Open Source 78

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 78

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

Storage 71

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Airbnb is a great example of a customer building high-performance and scalable applications with Amazon Aurora. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is another example of a purpose-built data store.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Since then we’ve introduced Amazon Kinesis for real-time streaming data, AWS Lambda for serverless processing, Apache Spark analytics on EMR, and Amazon QuickSight for high performance Business Intelligence. Team Internet AG is an ad tech company with a focus on domain monetization and real-time bidding. “In Building upon Redis.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. It is deeply integrated into everything we do.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Subscribe to this weblogs.

AWS 138

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 138

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. This enables Amazon S3 to know what document to serve if one isnt explicitly requested: for example [link]. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 134

AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. s pricing is simple and predictable: Storage is $1 per GB per month.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Here, native apps are doing work related to their core function; storage and tracking of user data are squarely within the four corners of the app's natural responsibilities. PWA Feature Detector.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments. If you want to see an example of how a simple application such as the Wordpress blogging platform can configured and created using AWS CloudFormation see the detailed posting by Jeff Barr at the AWS developer blog.

AWS 121

AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For example, a 2-hour movie on Blu-ray can be 50 gigabytes. For example, a movie studio can now store and manage their entire catalog of high definition origin files on Amazon S3 as individual objects. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs.

AWS 80

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

In the not too distant past, storage was limited and expensive. As recently as 1980, 1 megabyte of disk storage cost $200. Storage capacity is now so abundant and compact that you can record every voice conversation you’ll ever have in a device that can fit into the palm of your hand. But this is no longer the case.

Storage 40

Storage Internet Internet Mobile 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. GPUs work best on problem sets that are ideally solved using massive fine-grained parallelism, using for example at least 5,000 - 10,000 threads. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

For example updates to data now needs to happen in several locations, so what do you do if one or more of those locations is (temporarily) not accessible? Amazon S3 and Amazon SimpleDB are examples of AWS services that are designed using these high-availability principles using an eventual consistency model. Subscribe to this weblogs.

AWS 69

AWS Latency Database Scalability 69