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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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

All Things Distributed

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate. On that day, they had over 80 million pageviews and 18.8

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. Now, back to MongoDB itself.

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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes. If a node becomes unhealthy, Kubernetes will reschedule the workload to run on a healthy node; if a healthy node is not available, Kubernetes can spin up a new machine using cluster autoscaling. What are containers, and why are they so hot?

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European Union Data Protection Authorities Approve Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement

All Things Distributed

Customers have access to 11 AWS regions around the globe, including two in the EU – Ireland (Dublin) and Germany (Frankfurt) – which are comprised of multiple Availability Zones for customers to build highly secure and available applications. The DPA is now available on request to all customers that require it.

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The Future of Open Source is Polarized

Percona

These companies include Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, Sentry, and MariaDB, which developed this license in 2013. ” Similarly, these projects do not tend to have any commercial support with SLA available from that foundation. In all these cases, the license enables the commercial sponsor to have more control around commercialization.”