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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. 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. When is it appropriate to use DynamoDB? As Amazonâ??s

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

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CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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

All Things Distributed

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.

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