Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. It sounds like a big umbrella, and it is. Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Da

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Cloud AWS Storage Database 118

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

On time. On scope. On budget. The holy grail of industrial, cost-center IT. Plan your work and work your plan. Be predictable. As a set of goals for software development, this troika is incomplete because it neglects quality. That is a costly omission. Poor quality will ultimately steamroll the other three project variables: we'll be late, we'll remove features, and we'll spend a lot more money than we want to when we are forced to chase quality.

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Mobile Code Java Software 49

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Load Sharing. By Werner Vogels on 07 September 2012 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). One of the main reasons for picking some of these older papers as back-to-basics reading is that the first researchers on a topic had to develop the fundamental models and principles from scratch.

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Software Engineering Scalability Engineering Systems 88

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. There is some real jaw dropping work being done around this town and I had the privilege to see some of these highly guarded secrets, all powered by AWS.

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AWS Media 78

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters. By Werner Vogels on 28 September 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in India for the AWS Summits in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore (next week). As always in India I have an amazing time, the events are packed, the participants are extremely enthusiastic and eager to learn, the customers very appreciative and the food is just amazi

Cache 86

Cache AWS Scalability Network 86

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB. By Werner Vogels on 14 September 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekend I am not going back in time to fundamentals, but looking forward to the future. Encryption techniques to protect sensitive information such as personal identifiable information are becoming more and more practical, and ubiquitously.

Operating System 83

Operating System Storage Scalability Database 83

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding Flexibility - Introducing the Reserved Instance Marketplace. By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we launched a new feature that enables you to buy and sell Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Reserved Instances are an important pricing option for AWS customers to drive cost down.

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AWS Traffic Cloud Innovation 112

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Leases. By Werner Vogels on 21 September 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work.

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AWS Media Cache Operating System 77