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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

When we took a hard look at our storage for the Amazon ecommerce web site in 2005, we realized that the majority of our data needed an object (or key-value) store. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions. We had images for products sold on Amazon.com, video files, etc.,

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. You can't make this stuff up.

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It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

But end users kept complaining about slow applications, and despite increasing costs and control over networks, the baseline of end user experience wasn’t available. Application availability and performance measured using network probe technology. This approach works as long as application traffic can be decrypted.

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The Credit Cycle Strikes Back

The Agile Manager

Compare that to the relatively robust period of 2005 , when real interest rate curves were positive. Demand is outstripping supply, and that’s driving up the prices of what is available. In real terms, interest rates are still negative for 5 and 10 year horizons. Less cheap isn’t the same as expensive.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. In 2005, in “ What is Web 2.0? ,” I made the case that the companies that had survived the dotcom bust had all in one way or another become experts at “harnessing collective intelligence.”