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

All Things Distributed

These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 The scalability of a native graph database. book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. decline the year before.".

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. You can then off load the management and scaling of your database and application stack to Amazon RDS and AWS Elastic Beanstalk , and focus on adding value to your customers. Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. It was the first database sizing guide Sun had ever produced.

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Misaligned Incentives Fuel Organizational Dysfunctions

Strategic Tech

And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. Customer-facing work requires changes to existing APIs, databases, and internal systems. Turning the ship around in established organizations is a challenging endeavour.