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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

I don’t advocate “Serverless Only”, and I recommended that if you need sustained high traffic, low latency and higher efficiency, then you should re-implement your rapid prototype as a continuously running autoscaled container, as part of a larger serverless event driven architecture, which is what they did. Finally, what were they building?

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. In order to track this information, I used Google Analytics and pushed this data through as an event. The problem of power consumption in servers - Intel Corporation 2009.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. In order to track this information, I used Google Analytics and pushed this data through as an event. The problem of power consumption in servers - Intel Corporation 2009.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. In order to track this information, I used Google Analytics and pushed this data through as an event. The problem of power consumption in servers - Intel Corporation 2009.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). Comments (). Contact Info.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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