All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. Comments ().

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. AWS serverless offerings. Data Store.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. Query performance is measured from both warm and cold caches.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. Some fundamentals on Naming. No lock-in. Contact Info.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

caching (Memcached etc.), No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. High availability, via standby instances across AWS Availability Zones. providing advanced search capabilities (ElasticSearch etc.),

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Layout Shifts From Dynamic And Static Content We have been using dynamic content serving, where each request reaches our back-end server and triggers processes like database retrievals and page renderings. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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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. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It is an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Take a look!

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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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.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Oh, you mean a cache? Yes, a bit like those 2nd-level caches we were talking about earlier, e.g. Ehcache from 2003 onwards.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines.

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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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace is proud to partner with AWS to support AWS Lambda functions powered by x86-based processors and Graviton2 Arm-based processors announced earlier this year. According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement. Dynatrace Data explorer.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 Aurora Parallel Query response time (for queries which can not use indexes) can be 5x-10x better compared to the non-parallel fully cached operations. Test data and versions.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. 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. Image Source. billion by 2025.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It’s the reason why I was able to become a developer, but every time someone visits a WordPress site out of the box, it has to make a call to a database, grabs some content, mash it into some templates, generate HTML and ship that back to the browser. That was awful to develop for. I built my career on WordPress. Drew: It was, yeah.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. we only pay the transfer costs for one worker, and the rest use the cached object. Mount ranges of objects? — ?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching. Disk based caching.

Architecture 52

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

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