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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. The amount of money that companies are investing in infrastructure to reduce latency by a few milliseconds is staggering.

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

All Things Distributed

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. Nexon uses AWS global infrastructure to manage its IT infrastructure more effectively, and they are now using AWS for their domestic workloads as well.

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

All Things Distributed

In June 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in India. Market innovators and change agents need a comprehensive infrastructure platform that can reliably scale on-demand. You can learn more about our growing footprint at AWS Global Infrastructure.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. It will be easier to get support for infrastructure or services if several teams have the same needs. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The move to the cloud is projected by 2015 see a reduction of 30% in IT infrastructure costs, which amounts to $7.2 Many US federal agencies are already migrating existing IT infrastructure onto the cloud using Amazon Web Services. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Setting up CI/CD : Although developers could come up with their own build and deployment pipelines, chances are that they are relying on some infrastructure provided by another team (eg an “infra” team). Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part II)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). " Five infrastructure engineers and 3 product engineers were involved in the incident.