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

All Things Distributed

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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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. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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

All Things Distributed

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. They migrated their IT infrastructure, including mission-critical payments platforms, to AWS in just six weeks.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. Rob Hirschfeld of RackN had this perspective on the impact of AI on his domain of infrastructure automation.

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

High Scalability

Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007. According to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Data & Analytics, 28% of businesses run analytics on their employee behavior data, roughly the same number that analyze IT infrastructure data. billion in revenues.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Converging Views.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Barry is a professional software developer who has nearly two decades of industry experience developing and supporting software and infrastructure. Don’t miss his YouTube channel , where he has archived all of his web performance talks, and find him on Twitter @ addyosmani , where he tweets about JavaScript, Chrome, and web performance.