All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 2, 2017
With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.
Adrian Cockcroft
MAY 6, 2023
See The Value Flywheel Effect book for more on serverless first, and read Sam Newman’s Building Microservices: Desiging Fine-Grained Systems book to get the best practices on when and how to use the techniques to effectively build, manage and operate this way.
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All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. Within the thousands of businesses using AWS in France, we count enterprises such as Schneider Electric, Lafarge and Dassault Systemes as customers as well as CAC40, multinational bank, Societe Generale Group.
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 2, 2023
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. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.
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. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.
Alex Russell
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
In addition to immediate data loss, FruitCo's change will destroy: App-like UI: Web apps are no longer going to look or work like apps in the task manager, systems settings, or any other surface. Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" A recitation of facts.
Alex Russell
APRIL 29, 2021
After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Converging Views. PWA Install Prompts.
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