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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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

The new region, coupled with the existing AWS regions in Dublin and Frankfurt, will provide customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, big data analysis, Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and more. Public Sector & Not-for-Profit – UCAS , Makewaves , JustGiving.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

In some ways, eBPF does to the kernel what JavaScript does to websites: it allows all sorts of new applications to be created. Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended as eBPF for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality.

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A guide to Autonomous Performance Optimization

Dynatrace

Supported technologies include cloud services, big data, databases, OS, containers, and application runtimes like the JVM. A full list of currently-released Akamas Optimization Packs can be found on our website.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers. Learning HTTP/2.

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Scenarios when Data-Driven Testing is useful

Testsigma

The application/ website should be ready for this large user interaction, we achieve this by load and performance testing. Scenario 4: Image-based data-driven testing. Photo management applications, e-commerce websites, search engines, healthcare, disaster monitoring, robotics, etc. Scenario 3: Load and performance testing.

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