The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The security and data storage infrastructure has to meet certain security compliances and standards; only then, the infrastructure is good to go for testing. Scalability comes at a price.

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Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

To address this need, the integration of cloud computing and virtualization has emerged as a groundbreaking solution as these technologies boast scalability and flexibility, entirely transforming the operational landscape. Partnering with leading technology providers, they transitioned 70% of their workloads to the cloud.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

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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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Often we think about innovation as doing new things or based on revolutionary new technologies such as DynamoDB, but it is more important to ensure that one can also innovate based on existing paradigms. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Database as a Service (DBaaS) providers are an alternative option that acts almost like going on a cruise ship: quick provisioning is facilitated by them, while scalability, support services, and flexibility benefit from pay-as-you-go models. They also come with some drawbacks—high costs and resources needed for successful management.

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Such as: RedisInsight – Offers an easy way for users to oversee their Redis® information with visual cues; Prometheus – Providing long-term metrics storage solutions when tracking performance trends involving your instances; Grafana – Its user-friendly interface allows advanced capabilities in observing each instance.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. CaaS automates the processes of hosting, deploying, and managing container technologies. Easy scalability. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Flexibility and scalability Open source databases provide much greater flexibility regarding customization and configuration. Are you looking to enhance performance, improve scalability, cut expenses, or gain access to specific features you don’t currently have? Start by identifying the reasons driving the migration.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The pipelines can be stateful and the engine’s middleware should provide a persistent storage to enable state checkpointing. In addition, we survey the current and emerging technologies and provide a few implementation tips. All these topics will be discussed in the later sections of the article. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. We have a cloud model that offers a cloud-native method of software development, but it may take several more technological evolutions for the model to advance enough to have a minimal viable portability layer. That's easy to do, right? But we're ignoring that.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are becoming more prevalent in web development, with many companies and developers looking to integrate these technologies into their websites and web applications. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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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. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦.

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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. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., The Optane DIMM is the first scalable, commercially available NVDIMM. EWR is the ratio of bytes issue by the iMC divided by the number of bytes actually written to the 3D-XPoint media (as measured by the DIMM’s hardware counters).

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution? there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database.

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Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

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Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. To help ensure fast data access and scalability, IMDGs usually employ a straightforward key/value storage model.

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. To help ensure fast data access and scalability, IMDGs usually employ a straightforward key/value storage model.

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8 They'll love you even more.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Hardware resources. Hardware Resources. The list goes on and on. Therefore, there are a lot of chances of surprise errors to occur.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

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Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis. Step 1: Get to Know your Technology & Service Stack. Before starting any migration project, you must have a good overview of all your hosts, processes, services and technologies. Which technologies are candidates to be moved? What’s in your stack?”.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

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. This instance limit is a default usage limit, not a technology limit. Comments ().

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. The second work presented a novel scalable distributed capability mechanism for security and protection in such systems.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

You can compare all of their license costs in their Oracle Technology Global Price List. Scalability. PostgreSQL offers free scalability, and can scale up to millions of transactions per seconds. Oracle Enterprise is recommended for high workloads which are highly scalable, but costly. PostgreSQL Community. PostgreSQL.

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