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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

It's HighScalability time: A highly simplified diagram of serverless. ( @jbesw ). There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet. There was already a transportation network called the US Postal Service, and Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post, all over the world, that could deliver our packages.

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

High Scalability

slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. Thanks to #Ghent, Belgium’s Deputy Mayor @filipwatteeuw for sharing the secrets of their urban biking transformation (with jumps in walking & transit too). At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course". Yep, there are more quotes.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

50,000 : images in a National Geographic shoot; 11 billion : Voyager 2 miles traveled; 83% : AI papers originate outside the US; 80% : network partitions lead to catastrophic failures; 97% : large AWS customers use auto scaling; 82% : startup failures due to cashflow problems; $115.7 Serverless is for startups who can't afford their own.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Where programming languages are headed in 2020

O'Reilly

” Despite the slow rate of adoption, Java’s six-month release cadence has been trucking along—Java 12 dropped in March 2019, with Java 13 following in September. 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. Or do people just not know about the benefits of 11 in containers?”

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

With this launch, AWS now provides 49 Availability Zones, with another 12 Availability Zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong, Sweden, and a second AWS GovCloud (US) Region expected to come online by early 2019. The opening of the AWS EU (Paris) Region adds to our continued investment in France.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%). Interestingly, multi-cloud, or the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single homogeneous network architecture, had the fewest users (24% of the respondents). Serverless Stagnant.

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