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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

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Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018?

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

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For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

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Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?

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For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS China (Ningxia) Region

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Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. Founded in 2015, NWCD is a licensed data center and cloud services provider, based in Ningxia, China. This is our 17th Region globally, and the second in China.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

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In June 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in India. Examples of continuous sensing are found in the managed cloud platform built by Rachio on AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of its connected devices with cloud applications/other devices.

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