All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. Appliance manufacturers hire kernel engineers to develop custom features, including storage appliances.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76