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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

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.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

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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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. He’s also the author of HTTP/2 in Action , a complete guide to HTTP/2.

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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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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.