High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at warehouse scale, with hardware and software working in concert to deliver good levels of internet service performance. At 189 pages it's not exactly light reading, but it's packed with information you can't find anywhere else.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you. Peter : DARPA foresee a third one in which context-based programs are able to explain and justify their own reasoning. Exponential growth is likely to be sustained for many more. Quotes are back baby.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

Open Source 306

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 306

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. Well we don’t go to the bar and talk it out, instead we’ve decided to all spend billions of dollars and let the market figure it out” - David Patterson #theAIConf.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR. Open Source.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

Kafka messaging queue is well known implementation of such a buffer that also supports scalable distributed deployments, fault-tolerance, and provides high performance. For example, consider a system that calculates average purchase value in the internet shop for each hour. Logical Time Tracking.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

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. After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

Availability 106

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. It would have had no way of propagating Nitro across an entire vertical stack of hardware and software services.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, you can think of a cell phone network as a type of distributed system, consisting of a network of internet-connected devices that share resources workload. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Scalability. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. DataCenter Failure : power outage or internet provider issues. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

Best Practices 78

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 78

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We started with Amazon Dynamo, a simple key-value store that was built to be highly available and scalable to power various mission-critical applications in Amazon’s e-commerce platform. For DynamoDB, our primary focus was to build a fully-managed highly available database service with seamless scalability and predictable performance.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Read/Write scalability. This makes master a bottleneck, so it becomes crucial to partition data into independent shards to be scalable. (H,

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. As Sara Souedan said, not everyone has access to fast internet. Another image format to consider is the SVG format for better scalability.

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Vuepress (Vue) Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Next.js (React), Vuepress (Vue), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145