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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

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Database queries: Pages that require data from a database will incur a cost when searching over it. Application runtime: It’s kind of obvious really, but the time it takes to run your actual application code is going to be a large contributor to your TTFB.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

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Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. As Amazonâ??s

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

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They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. Getting started with QuickSight is simple.

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Hierarchical Navigation and Faceted Search on Top of Oracle Coherence

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From the business logic point of view, this was a pretty typical eCommerce service for hierarchical and faceted navigation, although not without peculiarities, but high performance requirements led us to the quite advanced architecture and technical design. Business Logic: Hierarchical and Faceted Navigation.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g.,

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Monitoring: Why focus on the end user experience?

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I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. The Rise of Cloud Computing.