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What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT.

High Scalability

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Polymorphic Data Storage. Greenplum Advantages.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

At Grid Dynamics, we recently faced a necessity to build an in-stream data processing system that aimed to crunch about 8 billion events daily providing fault-tolerance and strict transactioanlity i.e. none of these events can be lost or duplicated. The signature is initially initialized by the event ID. Lineage Tracking.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Pointer Events. is access to hardware devices. Shape Detection.

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