Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. 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.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

The end of the Turning Point marks the start of the Deployment Period , when the production capital of that age’s innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. . These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

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Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

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 the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Training Performance Media model training poses multiple system challenges in storage, network, and GPUs. One of these systems is Marken , a scalable service used to persist feature values as annotations, which are versioned and strongly typed constructs associated with Netflix media entities such as videos and artwork.

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Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128