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Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. Amazon ElastiCache customers will see their prices drop by up to 10%, depending on their cache node types. Comments ().

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores. They will also have up to 256MB of L3 cache per processor.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. In 2012, Dave Cole published a post on How we build CMS free websites. When we talk about static site generators, incremental regeneration, or instant cache invalidation, it’s enough to make the layman’s eyes glaze over.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Without this ability, engineers often have to carefully manage caching systems to ensure they can achieve low-latency and predictable performance as their workloads scale. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().