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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

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four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

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While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. There is also a wide network of Oracle partners available to help you negotiate a discount , typically ranging from 15%-30%, though larger discounts of up to 40%-60% are available for larger accounts. Scalability.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Survey of Local Algorithms

All Things Distributed

There is one noticeable exception: there is a class of distributed algorithms, dubbed local algorithms, that run in constant time, independently of the size of the network. Being highly scalable and fault tolerant, such algorithms are ideal in the operation of large-scale distributed systems.

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

All Things Distributed

Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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What is OpenShift? And how to make OpenShift monitoring easy

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Since its inception in 2013, Docker has become the de facto standard for developers due to its ability to make more efficient use of system resources, ship software faster, and minimize security issues. Along with security and developer convenience features, OpenShift and Kubernetes integration takes scalability to a further level.

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

All Things Distributed

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong.

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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more. At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes. Who manages the networking aspects? How do you make it scalable?