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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

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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. Scalability. PostgreSQL offers free scalability, and can scale up to millions of transactions per seconds. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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

All Things Distributed

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. Today, their time-to-market is close to zero.

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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. The Ohio Region launches with three AZs so that customers can create high-availability environments and architect for fault tolerance and scalability.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. TPU: Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is Google’s specialized hardware for neural network.

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

All Things Distributed

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. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.