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

All Things Distributed

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. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. They believe that they have reduced development time from 20 to 30 percent by having done so.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Comments ().

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How To Reduce the Costs of Database Management in Financial Services

Percona

During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast money and assets can vanish. Relatedly, that assumption is often applied to cloud-based managed services. Financial institutions appreciate the elasticity of the cloud but most often focus primarily on using it to scale up. If needed, you can spin up a backup.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking. Ford, et al., “TCP

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The assumption was, they had solved their quality problems with Agile development practices, quality was an internal concern of the team, and primarily the responsibility of developers. IT had decoupled itself from justifying every dollar of spend based on returns to being a provider of development capacity for an annual rate of spend.

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Is the Tech Cycle More Important than the Fed Cycle?

The Agile Manager

His basic argument was that each new generation of tech - in his narrative (a) mainframes, (b) personal computers, (c) early internet, (d) mobile / cloud - had a greater influence on the longevity and vitality of economic performance than anything that the Fed did.