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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. The science has spawned specialized chaos engineers who dedicate themselves to disrupting cloud software and the on-prem systems they interact with to make them resilient. Unclear starting system state.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. The first practical modern implementation is probably C-Store by Stonebraker, et al.

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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. Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season. All Things Distributed.

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“256 cores by 2013”?

Sutter's Mill

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Longer answer follows: Here’s the main part from article, “Design for Manycore Systems” (August 11, 2009).

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Ten Recommendations for Running Your MongoDB Environment

Percona

First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. To make this process work more efficiently and ensure a smooth failover, it is important to have the same hardware configuration on all the nodes of the replica set.

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Capitalizing Tech in a Cloud / SaaS / Continuous Delivery World

The Agile Manager

But we also know that a lot of firms still license captive ERP systems (no SaaS), operate captive data centers (no Cloud), and issue hardware to employees (no BYOD). We know that this echoes the supercycle of businesses separating into asset-light operating companies (e.g., retailers) and asset-heavy finance companies (e.g.,

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. These include data transfer (i.e.