All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Comments ().

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman 4 ⁄ 5 This is a really interesting take on the topic of technology and its influence on the widespread feeling of not having enough time in the day. While most books on the topic place the blame directly on the technology itself, Wajcman digs much deeper.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. It’s fascinating to read about the different ways our technology-reliant world is vulnerable to attacks. What I Read in 2012. Despite this, I have to admit I tore right through the book.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Blog aware.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon Redshift uses a variety of innovations to enable customers to rapidly analyze datasets ranging in size from several hundred gigabytes to a petabyte and more. I look forward to seeing how our customers put this technology to work. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. NoSQL and Scale. The original Dynamo paper inspired many database solutions, which are now popularly referred to as NoSQL databases.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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