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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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Scaling Graphite for Metrics Collection on AWS at Teads Engineering
Teads Engineering shared their story of scaling Graphite deployment from a single server, trying out various approaches like BigGraphite, and finally settling on the go-graphite stack and a custom HA architecture on AWS.
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Google Announces Several Updates to Database Services
Google has announced several new products and features for the database services on Google Cloud Platform. These announcements include Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, version 11 support for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and multi-region replication for Cloud Bigtable.
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Google Expands Cloud BigTable Replication Capabilities Globally in Beta
Google announced the expansion of Cloud BigTable's replication capabilities in Beta - providing customers with the flexibility to make their data available across a region or worldwide. Furthermore, the enhancements will allow customers to create a replicated cluster in any zone at any time.
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ScyllaDB Announces Major Release of Its NoSQL Database and Support for Concurrent OLTP and OLAP
At their annual Scylla Summit conference, ScyllaDB released version 3.0 of their flagship product, ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0. New features include: concurrent OLTP and OLAP; materialized views; secondary indexes; and compatibility with the Cassandra 3.x file format. Dor Laor, CEO at ScyllaDB, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Splitting Stateful Services across Continents at Instagram
At the recent Large Installation System Administration (LISA) 2018 Conference, Sherry Xiao, production engineer at Instagram, explained how their team split Instagram’s services across datacenters in the US and Europe. They achieved data locality in their stateful services - Cassandra and TAO - by using new and modified tools from Facebook’s engineering team.
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Building Resilience in Netflix Production Data Migrations: Sangeeta Handa at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Sangeeta Handa discussed how Netflix had learned to build resilience into production migrations across a number of use cases. Key lessons learned included: aim for perceived or actual zero downtime, even for data migrations; invest in early feedback loops to build confidence; find ways to decouple customer interactions from your services; and build independent checks and balances.
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Spotify Open Sources cstar: its Cassandra Orchestration Tool
Spotify recently open sourced cstar, its Cassandra orchestration tool. Cstar is a command line tool to runs scripts on all hosts in a Cassandra cluster.
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Bloomberg’s Standardization and Scaling of Its Monitoring Systems
One of the outcomes of Bloomberg’s adoption of SRE practices across its development teams is the monitoring system, backed by the Cassandra-based Metrictank time-series database, that they put in place.
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Scaling Graphite at Criteo Using a Cassandra Backend
At last month's FOSDEM, a member of the Criteo SRE team delivered a talk on scaling their Graphite installation using Cassandra for storage. A custom Graphite plugin called BigGraphite written by the Criteo engineering team replaces the default WhisperDB with Cassandra to achieve fault tolerance and elastic scaling.
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Microsoft Directly Challenges MongoDB and Cassandra with Cosmos DB
The term “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” is often thrown about whenever someone is upset with Microsoft. Superficially it describes any attempt by a technology company to attract users of a competitor’s product, but the actual strategy is more complicated than that. In this report will use Azure Cosmos DB to illustrate the concept.
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QCon New York 2017: Scaling Event Sourcing for Netflix Downloads
Phillipa Avery, senior software engineer at Netflix, and Robert Reta, senior software engineer at Netflix, presented their Cassandra-backed event sourcing architecture at QCon New York 2017. Currently, it powers the download feature in Netflix, and was summarised as something which improved the flexibility, reliability, scalability and debuggability of their services.
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Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference 2017: Day One Recap
Day One of the 12th annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference was held on Tuesday, April 18 in Philadelphia, PA. This two-day event included keynotes by Blair MacIntyre (augmented reality pioneer) and Scott Hanselman (podcaster), and featured speakers Monica Beckwith (JVM consultant at Oracle), Yehuda Katz (co-creator of Ember.js), and Jessica Kerr (lead engineer at Atomist).
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Lightbend Speaks to InfoQ on Their Acquisition of OpsClarity
Nine months after acquiring BoldRadius, Lightbend announced their acquisition of OpsClarity, a company specializing in monitoring reactive applications. InfoQ interviewed Mark Brewer, president and CEO at Lightbend and Alan Ngai, co-founder of OpsClarity and now VP of cloud services at Lightbend to learn more about this new partnership.
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