All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software. Today, companies take their server capacity and software from the cloud. Everyone can find these values on our website, and they apply to everyone.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 6, 2011

Here’s my talk’s description as it appears on the conference website: AFDS Keynote: “Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft”. This is the generalization of the heterogeneous cluster in all its NUMA glory, and it’s appearing at all scales from on-die to on-machine to on-cloud.

Development 40

Development Hardware C++ Games 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. It enables unbounded scalability as more commodity or specialized hardware can be seamlessly added to existing clusters. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. Big data challenges.

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? This is an area where cloud providers already bear much of the burden, and will continue to bear it in the future. Certainly not two-thirds of them. We’ll say more about this later.)

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Cluster GPU programming in the Cloud with the Amazon Web Services changes of all of that.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions. As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Migration to cloud. Cloud Platform.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52