All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

AWS 149

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. Azure IoT Functions, for instance, processes requests for Azure IoT Edge.

Azure 137

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 137

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Consumer-specific Endpoints in the Government When working for the UK government on a digital tax system, I remember an intriguing case of creating consumer-specific endpoints. We were developing a brand new service, the frontend website and the backend business capability microservices. And that’s because it is at first.

Software Architecture 58

Software Architecture Architecture Government Design 58