Jos

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Hace unos días hacía un análisis del rediseño de la web del Senado , justo tras su lanzamiento, desde el punto de vista de rendimiento web y mejores prácticas a la hora de desarrollar sitios web. La nueva web del Senado sufría múltiples problemas poco más que inaceptables para un proyecto tan reciente y con tal presupuesto. Pero al igual que destacaba dichos problemas, unas semanas después debo mencionar que varios de ellos han sido resueltos.

Performance 130

Performance 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud.

Innovation 149

Innovation AWS Education Network 149

Highly Scalable

JUNE 5, 2012

Intersection of sorted lists is a cornerstone operation in many applications including search engines and databases because indexes are often implemented using different types of sorted structures. At GridDynamics, we recently worked on a custom database for realtime web analytics where fast intersection of very large lists of IDs was a must for good performance.

C++ 102

C++ Java Performance Testing Efficiency 102

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Maximiliano Firtman has done an excellent job providing an overview of what to expect from IE10 in Windows 8 , but I wanted to dig just a little deeper on one feature in particular. In Windows 8, there are two “modes” of use: Metro mode and classic mode. Metro mode sports the spiffy new UI while classic is the same old boring Windows of yore.

Design 75

Design Media Internet Internet 75

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

On time. On scope. On budget. The holy grail of industrial, cost-center IT. Plan your work and work your plan. Be predictable. As a set of goals for software development, this troika is incomplete because it neglects quality. That is a costly omission. Poor quality will ultimately steamroll the other three project variables: we'll be late, we'll remove features, and we'll spend a lot more money than we want to when we are forced to chase quality.

Mobile 49

Mobile Code Java Software 49

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 30, 2012

At GoingNative in February , I emphasized the need for more modern and portable C++ libraries, including for things like RESTful web/cloud services, HTTP, JSON, and more. The goal is to find or develop modern C++ libraries that leverage C++11 features, and then submit the best for standardization. Microsoft wants to do its part, and here’s a step in that direction.

C++ 43

C++ Azure Programming Cloud 43

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. I have since returned and am now in New York City enjoying a few days of winding down the last activities of the year before spending the holidays here with family.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding The Cloud â?? High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. These include the likes of high performance computation, for which we introduced the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instance types.

Cloud 129

Cloud Performance AWS Virtualization 129

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 27, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My Best Christmas Present â?? Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting. By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it.

Website 127

Website Traffic Storage Scalability 127

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Managing long-term digital archiving is a challenge for almost every company. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage.

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

Highly Scalable

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Java was initially designed as a safe, managed environment. Nevertheless, Java HotSpot VM contains a “backdoor” that provides a number of low-level operations to manipulate memory and threads directly. This backdoor – sun.misc.Unsafe – is widely used by JDK itself in the packages like java.nio or java.util.concurrent. It is hard to imagine a Java developer who uses this backdoor in any regular development because this API is extremely dangerous, non portable, and volatile.

Java 101

Java C++ Virtualization Code 101

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency 118

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the many meetings with customers in which I have done a deep dive on their architecture and applications to help them create an accurate cost picture, I have observed two common patterns: 1) It is hard for customers to come to an accurate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calcu

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Da

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Storage Database 118

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Todayâ??s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS custome

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ??

Storage 116

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 116

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 06 February 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). One of the things that differentiates Amazon Web Services from other technology providers is its commitment to let customers benefits from continuous cost-cutting innovations and from the economies of scale AWS is able to achieve.

Storage 113

Storage AWS Innovation Scalability 113

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 13, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. By Werner Vogels on 13 January 2012 08:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Join me at 9AM PST on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to find out what is next in the AWS Cloud. Registration required. Comments. blog comments powered by Disqus. â??.

AWS 113

AWS Scalability Cloud Systems 113

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world.

AWS 111

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 111

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule. By Werner Vogels on 24 August 2012 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in the midst of my South America tour in the beautiful but very cold Santiago, Chile. The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 per GB/month.

Storage 110

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 110

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-case

Efficiency 107

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 107

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Thousand Platforms. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Todayâ??s AWS Elastic Beanstalk announcement of PHP and Git support reminded me of the post where I mentioned that we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS.

AWS 106

AWS Scalability Java Storage 106

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Invention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity â??

AWS 101

AWS Games Internet Internet 101

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. By Werner Vogels on 13 July 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). For a while now I have been on a track to read one influential/fundamental Computer Science paper each weekend. I find that going back to the basics of system, network and language design forces a good appreciation for keeping designs simple and focus on those f

Systems 100

Systems Best Practices Design Network 100

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers.

Architecture 98

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 98

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today.

Operating System 97

Operating System Virtualization Systems Hardware 97

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life." The challenge has two restrictions: only one album per year and there can be no repeats of artists.

Traffic 90

Traffic Scalability Systems 90

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The Andrew File System. By Werner Vogels on 17 November 2012 11:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekend I am heading to Brussels for meetings with the European Commission, specifically with Vice-president Neelie Kroes who owns the Digital Agenda for the EU, about how to accelerate cloud usage in both business and government in Europe.

Systems 88

Systems Government Cache Scalability 88

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Load Sharing. By Werner Vogels on 07 September 2012 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). One of the main reasons for picking some of these older papers as back-to-basics reading is that the first researchers on a topic had to develop the fundamental models and principles from scratch.

Software Engineering 88

Software Engineering Scalability Engineering Systems 88

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. There is some real jaw dropping work being done around this town and I had the privilege to see some of these highly guarded secrets, all powered by AWS.

AWS 78

AWS Media 78

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 22, 2012

Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customers’ on-premises applications. We have been working closely with our customers on their requests to bring the power of the Amazon Web Services cloud closer to their existing on-premises compute infrastructures.

Storage 78

Storage AWS Cloud Infrastructure 78

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters. By Werner Vogels on 28 September 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in India for the AWS Summits in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore (next week). As always in India I have an amazing time, the events are packed, the participants are extremely enthusiastic and eager to learn, the customers very appreciative and the food is just amazi

Cache 86

Cache AWS Scalability Network 86

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using Encryption for Authentication. By Werner Vogels on 09 November 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Now that I am enjoying some time in Seattle with real weekends, I like to remind you that my reading list is called back-to-basics.

Network 85

Network Scalability Systems 85

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 31, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Granularity of locks. By Werner Vogels on 31 August 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am at funconf in Ireland. After a ride in a Delorean , a private train ride to Galway and a helicopter flight I am sitting outside a cottage on the island of Inishmore.

Energy 85

Energy Scalability Systems Engineering 85

All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Register for AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The first annual AWS user and partner conference will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vega. It is shaping up to be a great event with many Amazonians, partners and customers presenting in well over 150 sessions.

AWS 85

AWS Big Data Media Storage 85

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB. By Werner Vogels on 14 September 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekend I am not going back in time to fundamentals, but looking forward to the future. Encryption techniques to protect sensitive information such as personal identifiable information are becoming more and more practical, and ubiquitously.

Operating System 83

Operating System Storage Scalability Database 83

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Million Miles Away. By Werner Vogels on 10 September 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I just received a note from United Airlines that I had flown 1 million miles on their airline. I didnt start flying United until I moved to Seattle, so all of these have been miles on Amazon business.

Airlines 82

Airlines AWS Scalability Engineering 82