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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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

All Things Distributed

Back when S3 launched on March 14, 2006 (also known as “Pi Day” to some), iPhones didn’t exist, neither did tweets or likes, Facebook was still only used by a few colleges and universities, and you couldn’t hail a ride or order lunch with an app. 15 years is a long time in the world of technology.

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Digital first, and always: Five critical metrics for measuring customer experience at federal agencies

Dynatrace

This memo arrives at a time when citizen satisfaction with U.S. government services has reached a general decline in recent years. According to research from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) , the ACSI “score” for government services is 66.3, down from a high of 72.3 The website satisfaction score is 69, which is also on the decline.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Leading UK organizations were among the early adopters of the cloud when we first started AWS back in 2006 and we continue to help them drive increased agility, lower IT costs, and easily scale globally.

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What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

Dynatrace, a pioneer of distributed tracing since 2006 with PurePath, our patented distributed tracing technology, extends observability beyond metrics, logs, and distributed traces to integrate with code-level analysis, user experience data, and metrics from the latest open-source standards. Cloud intelligence for the distributed world.

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Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

Additionally, its standing development history since 2006 ensures a stable virtualization platform. Its scalability is another feature; it can dynamically adapt to support an increasing number of VMs, facilitating the implementation of cloud infrastructures.

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OOTO August 2006

All Things Distributed

I have been off the grid in the old world and will remain so until the end of the month. If you are waiting for responses to emails, postings, approvals or comments; have patience.

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