Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

Hardware 99

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

Latency 52

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. The Moto G4 , for example. Don't pay a lot for an Android-shaped muffler.

Performance 124

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Large preview ). Setting Realistic Goals.

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