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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. All Things Distributed.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Information Architecture. This book from 2002 is a brilliant must read: site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance. How to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis. Speed Up Your Site.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

This comprehensive overview examines open source database architecture, types, pros and cons, uses by industry, and how open source databases compare with proprietary databases. For example, an analytics application would work best with unstructured image files stored in a non-relational graph database.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies. *In

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

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By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. Comments ().

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.

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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 30 September 2010 04:27 AM. Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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