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

All Things Distributed

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency.

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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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Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Here are the laurels given by the editors: Debuting in November 2008, Amazons entry into the CDN market quickly became a major player. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

To a certain extent, such a high diversity of recommendation techniques is attributed to several implementation challenges like a sparsity of customer ratings, computational scalability, and lack of information on new items and customers. Schütze, 2008. PS08] Optimal Targeting through Uplift Modeling, Portrait Software, 2008 [[link].

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node).