Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, both real and virtual. Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow. Let's start with a wide-angle look at how we humans handle waiting, in all its forms.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. This design has a double benefit.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. We knew that designing APIs was a very important task as we’d only have one chance to get it right. your resource usage.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144