The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) But the ephemeral storage service for intermediate data is not based on S3.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work? Limited visibility.

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

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

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 342

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

While to-date it’s been possible to integrate Dynatrace Managed for intelligent monitoring of services running on AWS and Azure, today we’re excited to announce the release of our Dynatrace Managed marketplace listing for the Google Cloud Platform. For more details, see Dynatrace Managed hardware and systems requirements.

Cloud 209

Cloud Availability Azure Google 209

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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 208

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 208

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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. Build evolvable systems. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.”

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 103

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 103

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 In 2007 Goetz revisited the results, this time also including SSD storage into the mix, which not surprisingly did change everything.

Storage 110

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 110

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments (). License Includedâ??

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

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

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To think about it another way, site reliability engineering is where the traditional IT role, or system administration role, and DevOps meet. In a traditional IT environment, organizations may have had a team of system administrators managing complex systems. What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do? Performance. Monitoring.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. He hasn’t changed.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

Analytics 136

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Introducing race logic.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners.

Innovation 149

Innovation AWS Education Network 149

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. To make this process work more efficiently and ensure a smooth failover, it is important to have the same hardware configuration on all the nodes of the replica set. MongoDB is popular with developers as it is easy to get started with.

Database 78

Database Servers Storage Strategy 78

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

The DataTable can be created multiple ways in the.NET code, but a common way to create the table is something like the following: System. DataTable DefaultTable = new System. Add ( "Date" , typeof ( DateTime ) ) ; You can also create the DataTable using the inline definition as follows: System.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

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.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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.),

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. The system needs to maintain a safety margin that is capable of absorbing failure via defense in depth, and failure modes need to be prioritized to take care of the most likely and highest impact risks. The first technique is the most generally useful.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. The system needs to maintain a safety margin that is capable of absorbing failure via defense in depth, and failure modes need to be prioritized to take care of the most likely and highest impact risks. The first technique is the most generally useful.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53