All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. is one of the largest social gaming companies in Japan with well over 10 million users per day.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Just like how a traffic cop ensures cars flow smoothly at an intersection, a Load Balancer makes sure data moves efficiently across the network. This is where incorporating a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer can be a game-changer. ‍1.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As we prepared to launch these features, I was struck not only by the range of services we provide to enable customers to run fully managed, scalable, high performance database workloads, including Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache , but also by the pace at which these services are evolving and improving.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

TServerless : We sat with a solution architect, apparently they are aware of the latency issue and suggested to ditch api gw and build our own solution. Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3 7x : faster PyPy python; 9B : gallons of water/day for lawns; 2.6

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Similarly, relationships are essential in many other use cases such as financial modeling, risk analysis, genome research, search, gaming, and others. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow.

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