All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. With this launch, AWS now provides 57 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong SAR, and Stockholm expected to come online by 2020.

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InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. DigitalOcean Droplets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. With an on-prem data center, the organization bears the burden of securing the physical infrastructure and its digital assets.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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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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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server Timing is a specification that allows communication of data from the server to the client through the use of a server-timing header. SpeedCurve's RUM collection library – lux.js – accesses this interface to collect custom data from the user agent. Also measured by round trip time (RTT).

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand. Contact Info.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

by Adrian Cockcroft Three windows lined up to let the light in through a door in the Madrassa, Marrakech — Picture by Adrian The existing approaches to carbon measurement provide delayed data for carbon accounting that is more akin to billing information in the way it is structured and queried.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js allows these developers to handle a large number of concurrent connections with low latencies. Today, AWS Elastic Beanstalk just added support for Node.js Who is using Elastic Beanstalk?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. let’s call it GS2?—?to

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Testing Strategies: A Summary Two key factors determined our testing strategies: Functional vs. non-functional requirements Idempotency If we were testing functional requirements like data accuracy, and if the request was idempotent , we relied on Replay Testing. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, losing critical data can be catastrophic for any organization. As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. For organizations that rely on data to operate, database backups are critical for business continuity.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale.

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VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. This surge in impressions will strain or break existing infrastructure, which wasn’t architected to handle data at this scale.

Performance 40

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Given that Amazon’s AWS Lambda functions are only five years old this November, anyone with more than three years of experience is a very early adopter. The chart packs in a lot of data. Serverless requires time and experience to resolve the tooling, data protection, and operational challenges that adopting serverless creates.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The specifications are impressive: 5G will provide a peak data rate of up to 20 Gbps (with 100 Mbps of “ user experienced data rate ”) to mobile devices: cell phones, smart cars, and a lot of devices that haven’t been invented yet. Reliability will be an even bigger problem than latency. So where is 5G useful?

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The 5G standard implies that we will go from 5-10 data centers to anything up to 1000 small. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

Juvenal Photo taken in Lisbon Portugal by Adrian Cockcroft The documentation for most monitoring tools describes how to use that tool in isolation, often as if no other tools exist, but sometimes with ways to import or export some of the data to other tools. When auto-scaling is used monitoring is also part of a critical feedback loop.

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Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. Try to measure your mean time to respond (MTTR) for incidents.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

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]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The 5G standard implies that we will go from 5-10 data centers to anything up to 1000 small. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. Try to measure your mean time to respond (MTTR) for incidents.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

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]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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