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. Today, I'm happy to share that the Canada (Central) Region is available for use by customers worldwide. 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. in the coming year.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 155

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As Uber continues to scale, our systems generate continually more events, interservice messages, and logs. Those data needs go through Kafka to get processed. How does our platform audit all these messages in real time? To monitor our Kafka pipeline … The post Introducing Chaperone: How Uber Engineering Audits Apache Kafka End-to-End appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Engineering 75

Engineering Monitoring Systems Processing 75

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Developer/coding bootcamps are incredibly popular right now. That should not be a surprise to anyone. Software development is an incredibly lucrative field. There is a much greater demand for talent than there is supply. I’ve seen that from both the hiring side and the job applicant side. It makes sense that a lot of folks out there are interested in becoming software developers.

Education 55

Education Software Software Code 55

cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Modern software usually involves running tasks that invoke services. If the service is subjected to intermittent heavy loads, it can cause performance or reliability issues. If the same service is utilized by a number of tasks running concurrently, it can be difficult to predict the volume of requests to which the service might be subjected at any given point in time.

Design 47

Design Azure Scalability Latency 47

John McCalpin

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) has a lot of modes of operation (selected at boot time), and the latency and bandwidth characteristics are slightly different for each mode. It is also important to remember that the latency can be different for each physical address, depending on the location of the requesting core, the location of the coherence agent responsible for that address, and the location of the memory controller for that address.

Latency 40

Latency Cache Testing Systems 40

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Cherami is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system we developed at Uber Engineering to transport asynchronous tasks. We named our task queue after a heroic carrier pigeon with the hope that this system would be just … The post Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Scalability 76

Scalability Transportation Engineering Systems 76

The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I figured I would change it up a bit and get into the basics of Golang and common Computer Science study material taught in school, but often used in software engineering type positions. We’re going to revisit a post I wrote back in 2015 regarding the Fibonacci number and generating the sequence in JavaScript. This time I figured it would be useful to walk through how to accomplish the same using the Go programming language.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Programming Engineering Software 40

Wayfair Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2016

What's fast, jank-free, and has what you need for your home? Wayfair's mobile web site, that's what! Behind this spiffy Android experience, and behind all of the ways into Wayfair that we make available to our customers, are some fresh technical upgrades and an evolution of our programming and product. Read more.

Performance 40

Performance Programming Mobile Availability 40

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Cherami is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system we developed at Uber Engineering to transport asynchronous tasks. We named our task queue after a heroic carrier pigeon with the hope that this system would be just … The post Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Scalability 49

Scalability Transportation Engineering Systems 49

Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As Uber continues to scale, our systems generate continually more events, interservice messages, and logs. Those data needs go through Kafka to get processed. How does our platform audit all these messages in real time? To monitor our Kafka pipeline … The post Introducing Chaperone: How Uber Engineering Audits Apache Kafka End-to-End appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Engineering 45

Engineering Monitoring Systems Processing 45