Sat.Sep 08, 2012 - Fri.Sep 14, 2012

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Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB - All Things.

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'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.

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A Million Miles Away - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Million Miles Away. By Werner Vogels on 10 September 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I just received a note from United Airlines that I had flown 1 million miles on their airline. I didnt start flying United until I moved to Seattle, so all of these have been miles on Amazon business.

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Expanding Flexibility - Introducing the Reserved Instance Marketplace

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'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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