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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007. It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing. What will the next 5 years look like? Do you like this sort of Stuff? billion in revenues.

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

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

There is some truth to that, as I do think microservices were over sold as the answer to everything, and I think this may have arisen from vendors who wanted to sell Kubernetes with a simple marketing message that enterprises needed to modernize by using Kubernetes to do cloud native microservices for everything.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. Our teams are helping companies of all sizes, operating in various industries, such as finance, business, media, and many others, move to the cloud.

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

All Things Distributed

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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