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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Retail: $20 trillion. They'll love you even more.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. BMW built its new car-as-a-sensor (CARASSO) service in only six months leveraging several AWS services.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

In our analysis of user activity on the O’Reilly learning platform , we found that DevOps-related search and usage declined in both 2018 and 2019. We didn’t attempt to define serverless precisely, but for many people in our audience, serverless means “function-as-a-service” (for example, AWS Lambda). Serverless Stagnant.

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