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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

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And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Out of the box, MySQL was fine for a decent amount of traffic but would fall over pretty quickly if hit with a sustained burst of traffic. Experienced MySQL admins could tune MySQL to handle the heavy traffic loads for more popular sites.

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An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2004: Green Day, American Idiot. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life."

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. All Things Distributed.

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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. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

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