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.

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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 ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. It was the first database sizing guide Sun had ever produced.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All postings. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more.

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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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. What is workload in cloud computing? The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control. Additionally.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Public cloud refers to on-demand infrastructure and services provided by a third party over the public internet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. I have used a bucket policy to make all documents world readable, but you could create one that restricts it to referrers, network address range, time of day, etc. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

While a mobile device is almost always connected to the internet and reachable, a smart TV is only online while in use. This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult. Event Priority Based Clusters AWS Instance Clusters that subscribe to the corresponding queues with the same priority.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. As we said at the time, DynamoDB was a result of 15 years of learning in the area of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. Fully managed cache for DynamoDB.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). So, this is the answer – Devices are connected to the internet via intelligent sensors.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. These strategies often involve spinning up and down numerous servers and using tools like load balancers and managed databases. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Definitions. Media Files.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Also, if a given upload runs into a networking issue, you only have to restart the part, not the entire object allowing you recover quickly from intermittent network errors. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. All postings.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the skip to the end if you want my take on those.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Amazon SimpleDB has launched today with a new set of features giving the customer more control over which consistency and concurrency models to use in their database operations. These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind. Consistent Read.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. It also needs to handle every possible failure of storage devices, of servers, networks and operating systems, all while continuing to serve hundreds of thousands of customers.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These programs that rely on significant network I/O will also benefit from the low latency, full bisection bandwidth 10Gbps Ethernet network between the instances in the clusters. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. But they may back off on AI development.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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