High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! odrotbohm : I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.”

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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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. CompSciFact : 'Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small.' -- Rob Pike. There are a few more quotes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Cluster Compute Instances can be grouped as cluster using a "cluster placement group" to indicate that these are instances that require low-latency, high bandwidth communication.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. 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. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. All Things Distributed. Spot Instances - Increased Control. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important.

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. 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. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

In recent years, this idea got a lot of traction and a whole bunch of solutions like Twitter’s Storm, Yahoo’s S4, Cloudera’s Impala, Apache Spark, and Apache Tez appeared and joined the army of Big Data and NoSQL systems. The system should deliver performance of tens of thousands messages per second even on clusters of minimal size.

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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. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

editingemily : "In peacetime, a ticketing system is great. Because of that big servers and other memory systems need to have another kind of memory in the hierarchy. SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. noahsussman : Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous systems.

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Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Smalltalk group is astonishingly insular, almost childlike, but is just now opening up, looking at other systems with open-eyed curiosity and fascination. George Dyson : The next revolution will be the rise of analog systems that can no longer be mastered by digital programming.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

5 among all database management systems and No. 1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. MongoDB is preferable for working with content management systems and mobile apps. It ranks No.

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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. A more scalable option is to decouple these systems and build a pipe that connects these engines and feeds all change records from the source database to the data warehouse (e.g.,

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon Aurora.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon Aurora.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 132

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. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. As said, the last one is probably the most powerful, scalable, and difficult to design, and unfortunately, it represents probably less than 5% of the solution currently deployed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump!

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. System Coordination.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Amazon ML is highly scalable and can generate billions of predictions, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput. The Amazon Elastic File System. Customers have been asking to add file system functionality to our set of solutions as much of their traditional software required a broad accessible shared file system.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. Development of DynamoDB was guided by the core set of distributed systems principles outlined in the Dynamo paper , resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Latency is a concept that increases with distance, so a signal that has to travel 1,000 KM will be much faster compared to a signal sprinting for that 100,000 KM.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Latency is a concept that increases with distance, so a signal that has to travel 1,000 KM will be much faster compared to a signal sprinting for that 100,000 KM.

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. The throughput of this pipeline is more important than the latency of the individual operations. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Architecting distributed systems that need to reliably operate at world-wide scale is not a simple task. There are many factors that come into play when you need to meet stringent availability and performance requirements under ultra-scalable conditions.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Representational State Transfer ( REST ) is a well-established, logical choice: it defines a set of constraints that developers follow to make content accessible in a performant, reliable and scalable fashion.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145