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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

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. What would have taken two weeks on local servers now only takes a few minutes.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. At the time, Nanoc talked about compiling source files into HTML: It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

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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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow. Consistency. SimpleDBâ??s