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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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DynamoDB for Location Data: Geospatial querying on DynamoDB datasets

All Things Distributed

Over the past few years, two important trends that have been disrupting the database industry are mobile applications and big data. The explosive growth in mobile devices and mobile apps is generating a huge amount of data, which has fueled the demand for big data services and for high scale databases.

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5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. By supporting such large object sizes, Amazon S3 better enables a variety of interesting big data use cases. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

All Things Distributed

One factor in this growth is the presence of image, audio and video archives, which are often archived in their original un-edited form. Data is retrieved by scheduling a job, which typically completes within 3 to 5 hours. With Amazon Glacier any organization now has access to the same data archiving capabilities as the worldâ??s

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

In this year's CFP we’re looking for topics covering the latest trends and best practices in cloud computing, containerization, machine learning, big data, infrastructure, scalability, DevOps, IT management, automation, reliability, monitoring, performance tuning, security, databases, programming, datacenters, and more.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

In this year's CFP we’re looking for topics covering the latest trends and best practices in cloud computing, containerization, machine learning, big data, infrastructure, scalability, DevOps, IT management, automation, reliability, monitoring, performance tuning, security, databases, programming, datacenters, and more.

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