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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

When first introduced, distributed caching offered a breakthrough for applications by storing fast-changing data in memory on a server cluster for consistently fast response times, while simultaneously offloading database servers that would otherwise become bottlenecked.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

When first introduced, distributed caching offered a breakthrough for applications by storing fast-changing data in memory on a server cluster for consistently fast response times, while simultaneously offloading database servers that would otherwise become bottlenecked.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. Amazon DynamoDB รข??

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].