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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs. Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is your good-to-go option for disk space.

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

Cloud Infrastructure Services -- An analysis of potentially anti-competitive practices by Professor Frédéric Jenny. What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. A group advocating for fair licensing. It's a choice.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications.

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Cloud Testing: How to overcome the challenges of testing on-premise?

Testsigma

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The security and data storage infrastructure has to meet certain security compliances and standards; only then, the infrastructure is good to go for testing. Picture Source: StatCounter.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources.

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