All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Today we are kicking off AWS re:Invent 2013. Over the course of the next three days, we will host more than 200 sessions, training bootcamps, and hands on labs taught by expert AWS staff as well as dozens of our customers. Tune in to hear the latest from AWS and our customers. Look forward to seeing you around the conference.'

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AWS Tuning Innovation Cloud 97

All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2013

AWS re:Invent 2013. The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers. Comments ().

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. Second, the conference will outline some of the critical risks in using generative AI. AWS re:Invent 2023: IT automation in AWS environments through a multipronged AI approach In almost every industry, generative AI has become a key topic.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 201

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals]. Nowadays I always include names when known.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

At this year’s RSA conference, security pros will explore themes such as the role of automation in cyberthreat detection and the importance of DevSecOps in proactive cybersecurity. As organizations develop new applications, vulnerabilities will continue to emerge. But organizations face barriers to this convergence.

Cloud 180

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 180

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. Simon continues to develop some new research areas and provides good insights into longer term trends. and develop the ideas in this deck further.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time. Amsterdam is of course the ideal place for such a conference :-).

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AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. Or even on a plane.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I developed the original JVM changes to allow [mixed-mode flame graphs], I pioneered using [eBPF for observability] and helped develop the [front-ends and tools], and I worked with Amazon to get [PMCs enabled] and developed tools to use them. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud. Thank you.

Java 145

Java Cloud Cache AWS 145

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The results gave us insight into what our subscribers are paid, where they’re located, what industries they work for, what their concerns are, and what sorts of career development opportunities they’re pursuing. Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases.

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Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 12, 2018

At Amazon, we are heavily invested in machine learning (ML), and are developing new tools to help developers quickly and easily build, train, and deploy ML models. Conversations continue over time, and develop history, which in turn builds richer context. A variety of digital assistants are playing a big role here.

Systems 110

Systems AWS Games Transportation 110

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. Or even on a plane.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals]. Nowadays I always include full names when known.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I developed the original JVM changes to allow mixed-mode flame graphs , I pioneered using eBPF for observability and helped develop the front-ends and tools , and I worked with Amazon to get PMCs enabled and developed tools to use them. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud. Thank you.

Java 52

Java Cache Cloud AWS 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Real-time detection for fast remediation.

Engineering 176

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 176

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and . We spent most of our time chatting to various folk about what they are doing with AWS now, and where they hope to proceed in 2019. AWS, for many organizations, is becoming the core, trusted, platform of how they work. To receive the email version please subscribe here.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2020

Well, that’s exactly what the Dynatrace University team did to support Dynatrace’s hands-on training (HoT) days at Dynatrace’s annual user conference Perform in Las Vegas. AWS Infrastructure Event Management program. Throughout the planning phase, Dynatrace took part in the AWS Infrastructure Event Management program.

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AWS Lambda Performance Infrastructure 162

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

and products like AWS Fargate have made this distinction murkier still. Finally in this first overall section it was good to be able to talk about AWS SAM and SAR?—?“Serverless I mention SAM CLI as an interesting addition to Amazon’s tooling, especially for rapid feedback for developing a Lambda-backed HTTP API application.

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Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. Manpower Optimizers” want help with managing development and test in a large corporate environment.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

The Symphonia

AUGUST 20, 2019

We’ve made it to a few conferences though around the globe, from California to Hungary, and places in between. from architecture, through development, to operations. It’s been a great, fascinating, and busy 2019 for John and I (Mike) at Symphonia. Here are some videos of our talks from them. link] Enjoy!

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Serverless Architecture Infrastructure Systems 40

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. Manpower Optimizers” want help with managing development and test in a large corporate environment.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Globally, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), established at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, has developed requirements for climate-related disclosure. It was developed with guidance from the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance ( SDIA ), expanding on formulas from Cloud Carbon Footprint.

Energy 178

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 178

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. . Why are containers so hot?? . ?

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Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. . Why are containers so hot?? . ?

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Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our team spent a lot of time addressing dissenting points and making adjustments to the architecture based on feedback from developers. Through our prototype development and proactive partnership with some key critical voices, we were able to instill confidence and close crucial gaps.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There’s plenty of security risks for business executives, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, etc., The laggard use case was Python-based web development frameworks, which grew by just 3% in usage, year over year. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. to be wary of.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. In a predictable discovery, we found that Amazon Web Services (AWS) claimed the majority at 55% of use for all PostgreSQL hosting activities in a public cloud environment.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. 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.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

Connecting with people through social channels, Slack groups, forums, meetups, conferences, content and much more. population of end-users we weren’t considering while developing products. I got into a software development role but then someone told me about Selenium testing so I learnt it and made a switch. That’s why I do it.

Software 97

Software Software Testing Energy 97

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline …. These were developed by my colleague Rob Jahn and Daniel Semedo from Microsoft. At the recent DevExperience conference in Iasi, Romania I presented on Top Performance Challenges in Distributed Architectures. Beyond basic metrics: Detecting Architectural Regressions.

Architecture 123

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 123

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. AWS has invested in optimizing Ethernet for HPC via the Elastic Fabric Adaptor (EFA) option, and the l ibfabric library.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

People define problems and pre-structure them, and machines or algorithms develop solutions that people evaluate in the end. At the end of 2018, voice (input) will have already significantly changed the way we develop devices and apps. At the US space agency NASA, for example, Amazon Alexa organizes the ordering of conference rooms.

Artificial Intelligence 76

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology IoT 76

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the skip to the end if you want my take on those.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

has given me much fulfilment and a long list of truly awful bugs to recount. ” Distracted in a conference grand ballroom, above what might be the largest mall in the world or at least Bangkok, a blank QEMU session has me seriously questioning my life choices. .” Recent work. No output. asm volatile goto (. l[l_yes] -.

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67