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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. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. This year, that same market is expected to generate $137.9 billion in revenues. In only 11 years, an astounding $100 billion of additional value was created. Are there more quotes?

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.

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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. million requests per second.

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