All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

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. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

Infrastructure 182

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) S3 on AWS). have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) What are Some Common SRE Responsibilities? Monitoring.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed. By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.),

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner, Dynatrace easily integrates with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the AWS Outposts Service Ready designation. What is AWS Outposts?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud. We need mechanisms that enable the mass production of data using software and hardware capabilities. These mechanisms need to be lean, seamless and effective.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail? What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Enterprises can deploy containers faster, as there’s no need to test infrastructure or build clusters. Serverless container services.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cloud Infrastructure Services -- An analysis of potentially anti-competitive practices by Professor Frédéric Jenny. What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

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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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e.,

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

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

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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. billion in 2020 to $4.1

Analytics 209

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 209

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

Development 250

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Monolithic applications earned their name because their structure is a single running application, which often shares the same physical infrastructure. Let’s break it down.

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. of users) report that “infrastructure issues” are an issue. We’ll say more about this later.) of nonusers, 5.4%

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. This tradeoff is unacceptable to public infrastructure providers, who need both strong security and minimal overhead. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Source: FileFlex.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

The pool of resources, at this time, is the CPU, memory, and networking resources of Amazon EC2 instances as partitioned by containers. networks ports, memory, CPU, etc). To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures.

Latency 166

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. As a result of this, my view of the Internet for a long time was a little ephemeral, a sort of mirage.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. Earth Networks recently launched a new lightning proximity feature for their popular WeatherBug app.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 12, 2017

EasyTravel demo application on AWS server. LoadView scripting tool Easystep on AWS server. Firewall on AWS server. AWS server security policy. Setup Demo App EasyTravel on AWS box. Connect demo application hosted on AWS to Dynatrace. Setup Demo App EasyTravel on AWS Box. Verify hardware sizing.

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AWS Tuning Monitoring Servers 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis. Download today.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. Programming the GPU evolved in a similar fashion; it started with the early APIs being mainly pass-through to the operations programmed in hardware. Where to go from here?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure. Which hosts not to migrate because of too much network traffic?

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Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145