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.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). While we understand it’s virtually impossible to achieve a linear increase in throughput as the number of vCPUs grow, a near-linear increase is attainable. We also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

APRIL 9, 2019

The most challenging pattern in our dataset consists of scenarios in which applications use the persistence mechanisms to deliberately store HTML or JavaScript code, e.g., for client-side caching purposes. CloudFlare’s ‘Rocket Loader’ for example caches external scripts in local storage. ected Client-Side XSS ?aw. While abusing the re?ected

Storage 44

Storage Cache Network Transportation 44

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual Assembly Figure 3 describes how a virtual assembly of the encoded chunks replaces the physical assembly used in our previous architecture. It downloads the part(s) that contain the referenced, uploaded bytes and keeps them in an LRU active cache. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability. Customers can typically achieve average service-side in the single-digit milliseconds. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167