Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

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Google Cloud Serverless Azure 221

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Serverless computing is a cloud-based, on-demand execution model where customers consume resources solely based on their application usage. Pay Per Use.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

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]. Impressive!

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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]. Impressive!

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This article is for anyone struggling with testing cloud services locally, and specifically for people wanting to locally test an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS. The last Serverless API project we worked on stored all the data in JSON files hosted on AWS S3 buckets. Tom Hudson.

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Lambda Serverless Testing AWS 117

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 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. We’ll say more about this later.)

Open Source 109

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 109

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

It was the very first time (1968) the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time video conferencing. Alok Pathak : While both (Multi-AZ and Read replica) maintain a copy of database but they are different in nature. — Doug Engelbart ( Valley of Genius ).

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are various implementations–from the industrial-grade AWS SageMaker Autopilot and Google Cloud Vertex AI , to offerings from smaller players–but, in a nutshell, some developers spotted that same for() loop and built a slick UI on top. “What if we build a model to detect motion in the video feed? Damn convenient.

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Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

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.

Scalability 131

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 131

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Traditionally, databases have been scaled as a whole –tables and indexes together.

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Games Scalability Database Retail 130

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Comments (). In their own words: â??With s what they had to say: â??DynamoDB

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Definitions.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

However, as use of the cloud as grown, so have the file sizes customers want to store in Amazon S3 as objects. This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS 82

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 82

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

As Dan Rayburn wrote on his Business of Video blog, "Amazon will be in the drivers seat to own the market for small and medium sized content owners who need simple delivery at a great price.". Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

Media 61

Media AWS Storage Big Data 61

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. We have one file?

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Database management: Choose a database management system that can handle large amounts of data and ensure efficient retrieval and storage. Cloud infrastructure and hosting: Consider using cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for hosting and scaling your UberEats clone.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

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. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Video Transcoding. Migration to cloud. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. Are videos properly optimized? Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Are videos properly optimized?

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103