Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because specific non-functional properties are often the main justification for NoSQL usage and fundamental results on distributed systems like the CAP theorem apply well to NoSQL systems.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 26, 2012

You create a new software application. It grows, rapidly. And it keeps growing. You add tools. You add people. You add roles and structure. You split the codebase into different technical components. You divide teams. You add environments. You make rules for merging and deploying. One day, you look round and realize you have 20 times the staff but deliver only a fraction of what you used to when you had only a handful of people.

Innovation 49

Innovation Code Testing Technology 49

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Thousand Platforms. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Todayâ??s AWS Elastic Beanstalk announcement of PHP and Git support reminded me of the post where I mentioned that we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS.

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AWS Scalability Java Storage 106