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“256 cores by 2013”?

Sutter's Mill

So: Was I was right about 2013 estimates? Remember this was written over three years ago – in the Time Before iPad, when Android was under a year old: How Much Scalability Does Your Application Need? Figure 4 : How much concurrency does your program need in order to exploit given hardware? Well, Intel Core i7 (e.g.,

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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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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. MongoDB is a non-relational (NoSQL), document-based database program that is commonly referred to as source-available. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB retains compatibility with MySQL, offers support for different programming languages, including Python, PHP, Java, and Perl, and works with all major open source storage engines such as MyRocks, Aria, and InnoDB. In addition, MariaDB provides optimal scalability options, making it ideal for growing workloads. What is MySQL?

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Elastic Beanstalk a la Node - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 March 2013 04:00 PM. With its asynchronous, event-driven programming model, Node.js All Things Distributed. Elastic Beanstalk a la Node. Comments (). well suited for their web applications. well suited for their web applications.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). As a temporary workaround we can do something like this: SELECT count() FROM rc WHERE (created_utc > ( ( SELECT max(created_utc) FROM rc ) - ((60 * 60) * 24))) AND (subreddit = 'programming') ??count()??