Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. For example, Samsung Electronic Printing used AWS to deploy its Printing Apps Center in a way that didn’t require them to invest up-front capital and kept total costs quite low.

AWS 110

AWS Cloud Games Latency 110

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Comments ().

AWS 75

AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

The goal is to simplify the provisioning and management of database capacity. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. By separating storage and compute, Neon replaces the PostgreSQL storage layer with data nodes, and compute nodes are distributed across a cluster of nodes.

Serverless 107

Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 107

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Progressive web apps Being responsive is no longer enough; today's websites need to be progressive. Motion UI can add subtle animations to elements such as buttons and forms or more complex animations that help guide the user through an app or website. Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Several prominent South American customers have been using AWS since the early days. Additionally, it allows them to keep their data inside of Brazil.

AWS 114

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet.

AWS 96

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

AWS 112

AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. This international data mess has been a frequent conversation topic with fellow travelers and no one has a good, simple and reliable solution. Comments (). Contact Info.

Wireless 107

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Our solution architects work with customers to look for opportunities to exploit elasticity in AWS setups which can lead to significant savings in operational cost. Comments ().

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Scalability 115

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. We can then forward this data to a custom analytics service.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. Cloud-native apps also produce many kinds of data. APM tools vs. APM platforms.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. It is likely that the Amazon Web Services will be used by many of the participants for their compute, storage, database and other cloud resource needs. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 93

AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Comments ().

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Progressive Web Apps Being responsive is no longer enough; today’s websites need to be progressive. Progressive web apps are websites that resemble native mobile apps. Companies that have switched from traditional websites to progressive web apps have seen higher conversions and customer engagement.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. Comments ().

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It is a general-purpose language, meaning that it has a wide-range of uses, such as the backbone of websites or web applications, automating tasks, or even testing. Prometheus is used to monitor and collect metrics about your infrastructure and applications and outputs that data in the form of dashboards and visualizations.

Engineering 86

Engineering Open Source Programming Monitoring 86

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier. It will be available in other AWS Regions in the coming months.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure. . $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Database management: Choose a database management system that can handle large amounts of data and ensure efficient retrieval and storage. The selection depends on factors like data structure, scalability, and performance requirements. Popular choices include MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

Dotcom-Montior

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

It is a general-purpose language, meaning that it has a wide-range of uses, such as the backbone of websites or web applications, automating tasks, or even testing. Prometheus is used to monitor and collect metrics about your infrastructure and applications and outputs that data in the form of dashboards and visualizations.

Engineering 52

Engineering Open Source Programming Monitoring 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

AWS 78

AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. Next weekend I will travel to Australia where we will have two " Navigating the Cloud with AWS" Events.

AWS 67

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 67

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 60