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

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

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Highly Available Redis Clusters with Automated Sharding Launches at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

January 24, 2019 – ScaleGrid , a rising leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for Redis Clusters on their fully managed Redis hosting plans. With the introduction of Redis Clusters at ScaleGrid, Redis users can now easily create sharded clusters with a few simple clicks when setting up their databases.

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Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources. For example, you can mandate that only Senior Database Administrators in your company can modify â??productionâ??

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

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Elastic Beanstalk a la Node - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 March 2013 04:00 PM. I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js Today, AWS Elastic Beanstalk just added support for Node.js to help developers easily deploy and manage these web applications on AWS.

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Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. database performance and scalability are critical for delivering new services to our 34+ million readers on any device. Since we launched DynamoDB, we have seen many database customers migrate their apps from traditional sharded relational database deployments to DynamoDB.

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