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AWS Graviton2
In November of last year, AWS announced the first ARM-based AWS instance type (AWS Designed ...
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2019 SIGMOD Systems Award
At SIGMOD 2019 in Amsterdam last month it was announced that the Amazon Aurora service has been ...
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2019 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award
Back in late 2008 and early 2009, I had a few projects underway. One was investigating the ...
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Tesla Full Self Driving ASIC
Tesla hosted Autonomy Day for Analyst on Monday April 22nd beginning at 11am. The video is ...
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AWS Nitro System
At Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton at the 2016 AWS re:Invent conference, I introduced ...
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Collision at Sea: USS Fitzgerald
At 1:30:34AM on Jun 17, 2017 the USS Fitzgerald and the container ship ACX Crystal came ...
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AWS Inferentia Machine Learning Processor
On Monday night I described AWS Graviton , the general-purpose AWS-developed server processor ...
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AWS Designed Processor: Graviton
This is an exciting day and one I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade. As many of ...
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Choose Technology Suppliers Carefully
Many years ago, Amazon chose to use Oracle database products to run the business. At the time ...
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2017 Turing Award: Dave Patterson & John Hennessy
Earlier this year, Berkeley’s Dave Patterson and Stanford’s John Hennessy won the 2017 Turing ...
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Will ML training drive massive growth in networking?
This originally came up in an earlier blog comment but it’s an interesting question and ...
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MySQL 5.6 to MariaDB 10.2.13
It’s hard to believe that a relational database in personal use at home will ever have much of ...
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Four DB2 Code Bases?
Many years ago I worked on IBM DB2 and so I occasionally get the question, “how the heck ...
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When You Can’t Afford Not to Have Power Redundancy
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport suffered a massive power failure yesterday ...
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Top 50 Corporate Revenue
This morning, I was thinking about Apple. When I got started in this industry in the early 80s, ...
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Tensor Processing Unit
For years I’ve been saying that, as more and more workloads migrate to the cloud, the mass ...
