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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. A new record entering a database table. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom.

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AWS Pop-up Loft 2.0: Returning to San Francisco on October 1st

All Things Distributed

Topics include Introduction to AWS, Big Data, Compute & Networking, Architecture, Mobile & Gaming, Databases, Operations, Security, and more. When: October 1, 2014 at 6:30 -8:00 PM. AWS Technical Bootcamps. CircleCI, NPM, Lyft, Librato, Cotap, Runscope and others will be featured speakers during our evening happy hours.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. It's all a bit confusing, and I wrote about this in 2014: [Xen Modes]. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

From Reloaded to Cosmos Reloaded Starting in 2014, we developed and operated the video processing pipeline on our third-generation platform Reloaded. The results are saved to a database so they can be reused. Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. 264, AV1, etc.).