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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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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump!

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