Rigor

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Modern sites or apps don’t exist in one single, specific place; they are fragmented across many virtual and physical systems, in different locations, in a variety of ways: Applications can be multitiered , with different systems living in different (physical or virtual) servers or entirely different data centers. Credit: cpdos.org.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. More after jump!

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Like the applications they serve, IMDGs are deployed as a cluster of cloud-hosted virtual servers that scales as the workload demands. The Need to Keep It Simple.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Like the applications they serve, IMDGs are deployed as a cluster of cloud-hosted virtual servers that scales as the workload demands. The Need to Keep It Simple.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. In a relational database, the memory working set size is critical for database performance.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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