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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The increasing sophistication of client-side JavaScript has redefined what dynamic means; where in the past dynamic content would be mainly server generated, today much content is served statically with JavaScript on the client side doing the dynamic modifications. No Server Required.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

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Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. ” – Andy King, 2003. Responsive and Fast.

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Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3.

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In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Contact Info.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. APAC Summer Tour.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

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