Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more companies move away from traditional on-premises data centers, they enter into an era where scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness become possible through various services offered by different providers in the market today. It is also crucial to follow the principle of least privilege and regularly conduct audits.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. The first goal is to demonstrate how generative AI can bring key business value and efficiency for organizations. 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.

AWS 207

AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 207

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. to drive new efficiencies and higher reliability.

AWS 110

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 110

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability. Reliability.

Serverless 279

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 279

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! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

There are several problems efficient test scheduling could help us solve: Quickly detect a regression in the integration of the Netflix SDK on a consumer electronic or MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) device. We wanted the to tool be available as a standalone library as well as scalable API service.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

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.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Energy efficiency and carbon footprint outshine x86 architectures The first clear benefit of ARM in the enterprise IT landscape is energy efficiency.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 264

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. Thus making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking a successful implementation of their multi-cloud strategy.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Site reliability engineers are focused with creating scalable and reliable software systems, so this also includes ensuring that development work is efficient and reliable, so when the finished product is ready for production, there are no surprises. that are required to keep the software deployments live are running efficiently.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. If we do that naively though, we’re going to end up with a lot of universes to store and maintain and the storage requirements alone will be prohibitive. These ideas make an efficient multiverse database possible.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Total Cost of Ownership.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. The public cloud’s ability to scale efficiently enables ‘cloudbursting’ when demand spikes without requiring businesses to overprovision their own infrastructures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application can easily and quickly record both telemetry and analytics results for each store.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application can easily and quickly record both telemetry and analytics results for each store.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application easily can keep track of both telemetry and analytics results for each store.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The exponential growth of data volume—including observability, security, software lifecycle, and business data—forces organizations to deal with cost increases while providing flexible, robust, and scalable ingest. OpenPipeline high-performance filtering and preprocessing provides full ingest and storage control for the Dynatrace platform.

Analytics 193

Analytics Processing Transportation Storage 193

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally!

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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 ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Buckets are similar to folders, a physical storage location. Debug-level logs, which also generate high volumes and have a shorter lifespan or value period than other logs, could similarly benefit from dedicated storage. Suppose a single Grail environment is central storage for pre-production and production systems.

Artificial Intelligence 260

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Metrics Storage 260

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Polymorphic Data Storage. At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Easy scalability.

Serverless 217

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 217

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. As the paved path for moving data to key-value stores, Bulldozer provides a scalable and efficient no-code solution.

Latency 243

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 243

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Since we were optimizing at the logging level for storage and performance, we had less data and metadata to play with to optimize the query performance.

Storage 187

Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Anna is not only incredibly fast, it’s incredibly efficient and elastic too: an autoscaling, multi-tier, selectively-replicating cloud service. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. ElastiCache for Redis Multi-AZ capability is built to handle any failover case for Redis Cluster with robustness and efficiency.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. There's a huge short-term and long-term efficiency of services that depends on the successful coordination of cloud services and infrastructure. For example, AWS created Nitro.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

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 Imagine building a high-tech car but only having access to a basic engine.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167