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

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. million Internet users in Finland resulting in a 92.5%

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Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing

Smashing Magazine

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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