All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup. Both with existing and new applications we can sometimes help with explaining some of the best practices we have seen at other customers.

IPv6 75

IPv6 Cloud Web Services Applications 75

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Science & Engineering. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. an engineering adventure to break the 1,000 mph barrier in a car. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

Cloud 67

Cloud IPv6 Architecture Storage 67

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. until today. until today.

Cloud 118

Cloud Applications Web Services IPv6 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. While registrars manage the namespace in the DNS naming architecture, DNS servers are used to provide the mapping between names and the addresses used to identify an access point. No lock-in.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet System Applications 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. And while many of our systems are based on the latest in computer science research, this often hasnt been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to advance research in directions that no academic had yet taken.

SOA 151

SOA Storage Architecture Cloud 151

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Operating Systems/Applications. A lot of people think tools like Consul are only valuable in “next-generation” microservices-based architectures, but Benny’s article shows how it can add a lot of value in “traditional” architectures.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60