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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. Scalability.

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

All Things Distributed

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region

All Things Distributed

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. We’ll continue to add new infrastructure to grow our footprint and make AWS as useful as possible for all of our customers around the world.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

Companies can more easily scale infrastructure — up or down — to meet economic conditions and changing business objectives. Open source standards and community support enable developers and DBAs to focus on accelerating feature creation and on enhancing availability, performance, scalability, and security.

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What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. Such a do-it-yourself approach adds complexity to the IT team’s work and requires them to build PostgreSQL infrastructure from various open source extensions. Then those tools have to be configured and tested to work together.