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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. Next Digital operates on AWS in a more highly available and fault-tolerant environment than their previous colocation solution.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. In addition, MariaDB provides optimal scalability options, making it ideal for growing workloads. What is MariaDB? Contact us to learn more!

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The images from the 2008 TNW Conference have travelled around the world in my Animoto demo: This year TNW is showing that it is not just a conference for talkers but also for builders by organizing a massive Hackaton in the two days running up to the conference.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. This benefit is available to Microsoft Volume Licensing customers with SQL Server licenses covered by active Microsoft Software Assurance contracts.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Comments ().

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2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

High Scalability

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

In 2008 or so, when data scientist emerged as a job title, it was widely ridiculed as a nonjob: the thought that people who just worked with data could be scientists, or employ the rigors of their time-honored methods, was literally laughable in many circles. To do so, we borrow metaphors from roles in other industries.

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