All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. Hyrax has developed an AWS based technology called Exatype, which rapidly and accurately tests HIV drug resistance.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? Dynamo might have been the best technology in the world at the time but it was still software you had to run yourself.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Blog aware.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. ​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level.

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