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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. You need an “abtest” database service. There are three ways to populate the database. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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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. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.

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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. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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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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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Fisher, 2007. Billsus, 2007. Zapf, 2007. Khan and D. Jain, 2005.

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