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

All Things Distributed

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. 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. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose. Regional isolation.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. It’s a win-win all round!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. It’s a win-win all round!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. It’s a win-win all round!

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” We do this all the time, when we ask “what if?”

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Strongly Type Those Table-Valued Parameters

SQL Performance

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. It affects the number of TDS buffers that are sent across the network to SQL Server, and it also impacts the overall processing time for the commands.

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