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. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. As we say at AWS, It is still Day One for DynamoDB.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128