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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. All Things Distributed.

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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX): Speed Up DynamoDB Response Times from Milliseconds to Microseconds without Application Rewrite.

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

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Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers. One or more specified cache servers are unavailable, which could be caused by busy network or servers. …). Please retry later.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. s business meant that many of these services needed more scalable database solutions. All Things Distributed.

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

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We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

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Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers - All Things.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters - All.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 28 September 2012 06:00 PM. In 2000 an improvement on the original Bloom filters called Counting Bloom Filters was published as part of the Summary Cache protocol. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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