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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). In addition, there are fewer resources, plugins, libraries, third-party tools, and sources of support available than for other, more established database systems.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. The ideal candidate will be someone who has built and ran large scale distributed systems and/or databases.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

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

All Things Distributed

In 2010, we opened our first AWS Region in Singapore and since then have opened additional regions: Japan, Australia, China, Korea, and India. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems.

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