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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 20 - Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors by Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Kinshuk Govil, Mendel Rosenblum in the Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 5-8, 1997, St. Comments ().

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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. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. Comments ().

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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. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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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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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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