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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

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. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

VoltDB

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. THROUGHPUT: THE DATA HIGHWAY’S CAPACITY Throughput, on the other hand, is the highway’s capacity to handle traffic.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same. How bad is it?

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Devops and the need for cloud based solutions

Testsigma

FaaS takes the game one more step ahead and frees the architects and developers from server and infrastructure responsibilities. For example, as the traffic increases, you can allocate two more machines to a particular zone. This is also called serverless computing in general. Source: Smart Data Collective.

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Questions of Worth

The Agile Manager

With all cash and no equity, employees now had clear rules of the game, too. Yes, technologies like Office, SAP and LinkedIn are fantastic, but they're not exactly the equivalent of serverless in tech. Labor extracted rents from the client for which it toiled, but labor had no equity in the outcomes that it achieved.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day. Telenor Connexion.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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