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Towards a Unified Theory of Web Performance

Alex Russell

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. The chief effect of the architectural difference is to shift the distribution of latency within the loop. Improving latency for one scenario can degrade it in another.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. million unique visits.

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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand. introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Comments ().

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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further. In order for a service to talk to another, it needs to know two things: the name of the destination service, and whether or not the traffic should be secure.

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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

All Things Distributed

With these goals in mind, In January, 2012 we launched Amazon DynamoDB , our cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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