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. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Unlike the temperature outside. John and I (Mike) have had a fun three months. Great stuff!

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. He hasn’t changed.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. They want to compete with AWS or Azure, and want to use OpenStack as a foundation for a commercial offering.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. They want to compete with AWS or Azure, and want to use OpenStack as a foundation for a commercial offering.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs. Check out their conference talk and expect a future blog post from our colleagues. Our goal was to design a GraphQL schema that was reflective of the domain itself, not the database model.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases. Cloud native design is a new way of thinking about software and architecture. Coincidence?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Collapse multiple keep-alive requests in Titus Job Coordinator, sending a response to the latest one which has the arrival timestamp less than that of the timestamp of the last event sent over the network. Designing Data-Intensive Applications is an excellent book that goes into detail about consistency models discussed in this blog post.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Clouds using Ethernet that are multipath optimized using libfabric and features like EFA on AWS are going to be increasingly competitive, and Ethernet will replace other interconnects between racks. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver. One team might put labels above a text box while another team puts them on the same line, or different teams using different date pickers (we can minimise with these risk by using design systems and similar).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But the other thing here, there is this real pressure, as you mentioned in the industry to always keep up to date with all these new technologies, in large part because people who develop these technologies and people who work at the big companies are the ones who get invited to speak at conferences and talk about all the cool things they’ve built.

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