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Towards a Unified Theory of Web Performance

Alex Russell

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. The difference in weight between the two architectures is interesting, but what we should focus on is the per interaction loop. Today's web architecture debates (e.g.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. If you have a web application for which you expect uniform steady state traffic, the most cost-effective option is to use Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances (RIs). Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS.

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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further. In order for a service to talk to another, it needs to know two things: the name of the destination service, and whether or not the traffic should be secure.

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. DBLog High Level Architecture.

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