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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Dew Drop – June 5, 2013 (#1,561) ( Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew). The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2013 ( Dirk Strauss). A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons ( Hacker News). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source?

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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. What I want to cover in this blog post is how I think platforms should be structured, and why it’s always plural, there isn’t one platform or one platform team. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

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

All Things Distributed

The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. To meet such large traffic numbers, they need a technology infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and flexible. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate.

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The Best Way to Host MongoDB on DigitalOcean

Scalegrid

While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Local outages might cause traffic to be routed to non-local Points of Presence (PoPs), considerably decreasing performance and usability.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Local outages might cause traffic to be routed to non-local Points of Presence (PoPs), considerably decreasing performance and usability.

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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. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency.

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