Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji’s routing table is a materialized representation of how user traffic at various edge nodes ought to be distributed over available data centers to balance data center utilization and minimize latency. For example, balance utilisation across all data centers, or optimise for network latency.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. Its strategies for flow control are either stop-and-wait (i.e., HTTP, TCP, FTP, MQTT, JMS), databases (i.e., The need for flow control.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

in Atlas , Netflix’s in-memory dimensional time series database. We parallelize rerun jobs with Titus , Netflix’s container management platform, which allows us to exercise many hundreds of replay files in minutes. MezzFS collects metrics on data throughput, download efficiency, resource usage, etc.

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214