Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

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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. But what is the purpose behind this model?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

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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.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The Ohio Region is the fifth AWS region in the US. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14. The pace of expansion at AWS is accelerating, and Ohio is our third region launch this year. We are also glad to offer low transfer rates between both US East Regions.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom.

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

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.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. For more details on AWS in Japan see [link].

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Solution We built a system called Lerner that consists of a set of microservices and a python library that allows scalable agent training and inference for test case scheduling. We wanted the to tool be available as a standalone library as well as scalable API service. which allows fast deployment times and rapid scalability.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

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. For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 4.22 %usr 38.40

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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. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Register for AWS re: Invent. The first annual AWS user and partner conference will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vega. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. Comments ().

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 7, 2023

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. AWS calls this an Insufficient Capacity Exception (ICE) and works very hard to avoid it.

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Energy AWS Azure Cloud 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed.

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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.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al.,

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Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Scenario 3 – Network Partition – Network Connectivity Breaks Down Between Master and Slave Nodes. This is a classical problem in any distributed system where each node thinks the other nodes are down, while in reality, only the network communication between the nodes is broken.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. What does observability mean for Kubernetes?

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The key ingredients of Cloudburst are a highly-scalable key-value store for persistent state ( Anna ), local caches co-located with function execution environments, and cache-consistency protocols to preserve developer sanity while data is moved in and out of those caches. High level architecture. Evaluation. A closing thought.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Innovation AWS Education Network 149

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

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.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Back up anywhere – to the cloud (use any S3-compatible storage) or on-premise with a locally-mounted remote file system It allows you to choose which compression algorithms to use.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

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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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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.

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Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

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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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

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. But here's the catch: if the provider lacks certain features, you're handcuffed.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119