All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Whether it’s ecommerce shopping carts, financial trading data, IoT telemetry, or airline reservations, these data sets need fast, reliable access for large, mission-critical workloads. First, unlike key-based access, which is directed to a specific grid server to retrieve an object, a query requires the participation of all grid servers.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Whether it’s ecommerce shopping carts, financial trading data, IoT telemetry, or airline reservations, these data sets need fast, reliable access for large, mission-critical workloads. First, unlike key-based access, which is directed to a specific grid server to retrieve an object, a query requires the participation of all grid servers.

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Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 84.1 | | version_comment | Percona Server (GPL), Release 84.1, With faster disks (i.e. MySQL on ec2.

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