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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. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed. Comments (). t need them.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season. All Things Distributed. Comments (). License Includedâ??

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

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. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

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

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. Those algorithms packaged with scikit-learn?

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Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug - All.

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By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. ve already passed our 2012 targets. We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software. All Things Distributed. Comments (). In short, DynamoDB is taking off.

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Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

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