Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run. AWS aims to support the streamlining of observability.

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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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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

Queues designated as durable maintain their configuration and stored messages even after the broker restarts. They allow for specific routing to designated queues, confirming that every message finds its proper recipient. This replication is designed to significantly heighten fault tolerance levels.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. Daunting as this may seem initially.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Well, it is because we believe that open source philosophy is not only about the source but also about design and decision-making.

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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. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Dynatrace AWS monitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace. Monitoring your i nfrastructure.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Despite the potential challenges associated with scaling AI in cloud computing, strategies such as: Obtaining leadership endorsement Establishing ROI indicators Utilizing responsible AI algorithms Addressing data ownership issues can be employed to ensure successful integration.

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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. The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Often customers are surprised about our strategy to help them drive their costs down. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Dynatrace AWS m onitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. And b ecause Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is a vailable to you with in Dynatrace. .

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Comments (). All postings.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Building a successful UberEats clone requires a well-planned strategy that takes into account various aspects, including market research, feature prioritization, intuitive design, robust development, and targeted marketing campaigns. By clearly outlining your objectives, you can align your strategies and resources accordingly.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. For Physalia, and for AWS more generally, the guiding principle is minimise the blast radius.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources." Conftest : Conftest is a tool designed to enforce policies on configuration files. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. In the absence of a proper backup strategy, the data can be lost forever, leading to significant financial and reputational damage. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. Tip #5: Think wisely about your index strategy Putting some thought into your queries at the start can have a massive impact on performance over time. It provides a flexible data model allowing you to easily store unstructured data.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure. Hold that thought.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And while you could always just trim the fat and build more minimally designed and content-centric sites, why compromise? So, today, let’s focus on how you can still design with as many images as you want without slowing down your website. The Necessity Of An Image Optimization Strategy For Mobile. Size Your Images Correctly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

are stored in secure storage layers. Amsterdam is built on top of three storage layers. One of the first decisions when integrating with Elasticsearch is designing the indices, their settings and mappings. It was time to take a step back and reevaluate our ES data indexing and sharding strategy. Net, Ruby, Perl etc.).

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All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. I will give a keynote on enterprise migration strategies. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. 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. Recommendations.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

By shifting the unit of capacity we are pricing against, customers bidding strategy will directly determine whether or not they are fulfilled. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

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