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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database? Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Egnyte was founded in 2007. Chokepoint : Even sharded Berkeley DB was choking under the stress and there was a database crash with recovery taking hours, it had to be replaced.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. HTTP, TCP, FTP, MQTT, JMS), databases (i.e., AWS, Kafka, Google Cloud, Spring, ElasticSearch). Most well-known is probably Apache Camel.