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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

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Web Development Trends in 2023

KeyCDN

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirements

VoltDB

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option.