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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. We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems.

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Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, 7/31: Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures

Percona

In modern data architectures, we’re increasingly moving from single-node design systems to distributed architectures using multiple nodes – often spread across multiple databases and multiple continents. In this presentation, we will look at how we can use MySQL to engineer distributed multi-node systems. Register Now.

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An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2006: Matisyahu, Youth. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life."

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“256 cores by 2013”?

Sutter's Mill

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Longer answer follows: Here’s the main part from article, “Design for Manycore Systems” (August 11, 2009).

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). 2006-01-01 ? In a partitioned massively parallel database system, the storage format and sorting algorithm may not be optimized for that operation as we are reading multiple partitions in parallel.

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

Web apps allow you to break the traditional constraints of the desktop and mobile operating systems and provide freedom to experiment with different varieties of software. Faster and scalable performance as compared to React or Vue. Introduced in 2006, its popularity peaked around 2013-14 and has been on the decline ever since.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication

Smashing Magazine

In his five years as an art director at the aerospace and defence company, Nitsche developed an information design system which resulted in annual reports, posters, technical data, and Dynamic America, a 420-page book tracing the company’s history. Max Huber” (2006) by Stanislaus von Moos, Mara Campana, and Giampiero Bosoni.

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