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

All Things Distributed

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 - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. All Things Distributed.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation. It supports multiple operating systems and platforms, making it an ideal choice for various applications. GA 11 April 2012 5.5.23

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Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 14 September 2012 05:00 PM. That goes especially for the interaction between applications and storage engines, and between applications and databases. All Things Distributed. Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB. Comments ().

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Full vs. Incremental vs. Differential Backups: Comparing Backup Types

Percona

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. Advantages of full backups Full backups provide several benefits in terms of safeguarding data and facilitating recovery processes, as they encompass thorough data replication and enable complete system restoration during critical situations.

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

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. We believe that installing our software should be as straightforward as we can make it, requiring minimal knowledge of the host operating system and the fewest possible explicit configuration settings.

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