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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

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By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. All Things Distributed. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. Comments ().

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

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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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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

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We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. DynamoDB stores information as database tables, which are collections of individual items.

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