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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.

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

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing). AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

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

All Things Distributed

Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources. 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. Comments (). productionâ?? Amazon RDS DB instances.

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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. The effects have hit cloud vendors who can’t possibly compete with MongoDB.

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Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB. 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. DynamoDB stores information as database tables, which are collections of individual items.

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PostgreSQL Trends: Most Popular Cloud Providers, Languages, VACUUM, Query Management Strategies & Deployment Types in Enterprise

Scalegrid

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. Most Popular Cloud Providers for PostgreSQL Hosting.

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