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

All Things Distributed

15 years is a long time in the world of technology. 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.

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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. Technology developments come in waves. ” The AppMon wave.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up. But this would be no ordinary project.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. 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.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. 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.

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Deprecated features to take out of your toolbox – Part 1

SQL Performance

The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections. I would like to share a couple of recent examples that help illustrate how using deprecated SQL Server features continues to bite us.

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