Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Second, this exercise in model-building was … rather tedious? This person is comfortable talking to databases to pull data, then calling Pandas to transform it. That’s sort of true. Get your results in a few hours. Your Job Has Changed.

Tuning 130

Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The applications must be integrated to the surrounding business systems so ideas can be tested and validated in the real world in a controlled manner. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Why did something break? Who did what and when?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

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 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. The system is more robust. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. We have also made other enhancements along the way.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. All Things Distributed.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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. Regional caching? —?Netflix

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214